Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Taliban torches NATO supplies in Pakistan

|
|
 
  
Published: March. 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 29 (UPI) -- Four vehicles and offices of a terminal storing containers filled with NATO military supplies were burned in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said.

Hundreds of suspected Taliban militants carrying rockets and rifles stormed the Farhad terminal Saturday and set fire to four vehicles loaded with supplies bound for Afghanistan, as well as other equipment, a security guard told the English-language newspaper Dawn.

The owner of the terminal told the newspaper four offices were also destroyed, as were computers and about $12,500 in cash.

He said the destruction happened despite 20 police officers and eight private guards being deployed at the terminal.

Recommended Stories
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
New book is full of girls in their bedrooms, will be read by people who need to have a seat right...
★☆☆☆☆ Michigan is an uninhabitable swamp. Do not settle
As part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations, Top Gear presenter James May has built a contraption...
New, comprehensive data on all the reasons why people break-up. Bad news for Farkers: drinking too...
There is finally a car that's more dangerous to rear-end than a Ford Pinto
Here is the full list of 2012 hurricane names. Wait... Hurricane Kirk?