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Summary At least two people died when NATO oil tankers were set on fire near Dasht on Tuesday afternoon.
Gunmen on a motorbike fired at the vehicle then set it on fire in the Dasht suburb of the provincial capital Quetta, local administration official Saeed Kurd said.The driver and his helper were killed as they could not escape the burning vehicle, he said.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban has in the past said it carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies to the more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks on NATO supply vehicles in the northwest and southwest regions of Pakistan, which border landlocked Afghanistan.Most supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistan.Currently about 70 percent of the NATO supplies are shipped into Afghanistan through two major routes in Pakistan, namely the Chaman port in Balochistan and the Torkham port in Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan.
