NATO loses four tanker trucks to rebels

Pakistan: Alleged armed rebels attacked with rockets and then burned four NATO tanker trucks in a northern Pakistan tribal district near the Afghan border, the local media reported Monday.

No deaths or injuries were reported in the attack in Kurran Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The fuel trucks were coming from the port of Karachi in southern Pakistan and were carrying fuel for troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization stationed in Afghanistan.

About 80 percent of the fuel and military equipment for over 140,000 foreign troops occupying the neighbouring country moves through Pakistan.

Convoys are constantly attacked by Pakistani Islamic rebels accused by local authorities of having links with members of the Afghan Taliban Movement and Al Qaeda network.

Most of the goods are moved by road from the port of Karachi through the Khyber Passage on the northwestern side. Islamabad, Prensa Latina