The Taliban militants on early Wednesday attacked trucks carrying Nato supplies to foreign troops in Afghanistan killing at least 9 people and gutting several vehicles near Islamabad, the Pakistan capital city.
“The result was an inferno that killed nine people. The (Nato) trucks were gutted. There was a huge fire,” a security official at the site said. Taliban-linked Al Qaeda Punjab later claimed responsibility of the unprecedented midnight attack on a Nato convoy near Islamabad.
A purported spokesman of the militants claimed responsibility of attack on a convoy carrying supplies for Western troops in Afghanistan through an SMS and later by a telephonic call. The banned group had earlier also claimed responsibility of attack on worship places of Ahmadis in Lahore and other terror incidents.
Meanwhile, 21 Taliban fighters were killed in fierce clashes that erupted when militants attacked security check posts at several places in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan.
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Pervez party to formally start recruitment
Shafqat Ali
Islamabad
Former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) party has kicked off in hunt of power for the ousted dictator.
The APML, started its ‘political journey’ from Karachi to target, what its representatives call the politics of dynasty in order to empower the masses.
“During our two-day stay in the city, we observed unprecedented sentiments for Musharraf, which showed that he was more popular than we expected,” Mr Musharraf’s spokesman Maj.-General (retd) Rashid Qureshi told a news conference on Tuesday evening. “We got an encouraging reception in Sindh,” he added.
Rashid Qureshi claimed that Mr Musharraf was also popular among expatriate Pakistanis.