Taliban militants launched a second raid in as many days on Nato supplies in Pakistan setting fire to nearly 100 more vehicles destined for coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The latest attack on a container terminal near the northwest city of Peshawar came a day after Taliban militants launched the biggest such raid to date, destroying nearly 200 vehicles in the area.
This time, the attackers set nearly 100 vehicles alight including jeeps and 20 supply trucks after dousing them with petrol, police said.
“It was almost the same type of attack as the one conducted by 200 armed militants” on the previous night, said a police official. “The militants fled from the scene when police arrived.”
Speaking of trends, Pakistan has moved against Lashkar-e-Taiba. From the Guardian…..
Pakistan launched its first major operation against the militant group accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks, raiding a camp of Lashkar-e-Taiba and capturing a man identified by India as one of the masterminds behind the terrorist strike.
According to local reports, 12 members of the banned group including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused by Delhi as being one of the planners of the carnage in India’s financial centre, were arrested in Sunday night’s raid in the hills above Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. A helicopter gunship hovered overhead and gunfire was heard.
Sounds great don’t it? But we have been down this road before. From later on in the article….
In the past, Pakistan has arrested the founder of LeT, Hafiz Saeed, but then quietly let him go weeks later.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has been banned for years now. But that has not stopped it from operating.