Pakistan mob burns two APCs set for U.S. Afghan force (Reuters)
There have been reports Islamist militants had threatened to start attacking stores bound for foreign forces in Afghanistan in Karachi, at what place many stores arrive before sentient trucked overland into Afghanistan.
The APCs were on a lorry parked by a main road since August 18 because of a strike by truck drivers over rising material for burning prices.
"They were armed and about brace dozen of them. They first fired and therefore burned the two APCs," senior police official Faisal Noor told Reuters.
Noor declined to comment when asked if the storm might have been the work of Taliban supporters trying to disrupt supplies reaching foreign forces in Afghanistan, saying his men were still investigating.
From Karachi, supplies for U.S. forces are trucked through couple border crossings, some into the southern Afghan town of Spin Boldak, and the other to the northeast at the top of the Khyber Pass.
Taliban militants regularly make a run at supplies, in particular fuel trucks, steady the rim or after they condition into Afghanistan.
But if confirmed, this would be the first militant attack on U.S. military supplies in Karachi.
(Reporting by Imtiaz Shah; Writing by Aftab Borka; Editing by Jerry Norton)
