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NATO supplies suspended following attacks: Mukhtar

* Interior adviser says supplies resumed after area cleared of militants

LANDI KOTAL/LAHORE: The suspension of supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan shows Pakistan is serious about safeguarding its territorial integrity, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar told Dawn News on Saturday.

“We have told them that we will take action and we have already taken action today. We have stopped the supply of oil and this will tell how serious we are,” Mukhtar said.

Resumed supplies: However, according to a late night report by Dawn News, supplies from Pakistan to NATO forces have resumed after authorities secured the supply route in the Tribal Areas.

Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik confirmed to the channel that NATO supplies, temporarily suspended after militants hiding in the area kidnapped around 20 Frontier Corps personnel, resumed on Friday night, after the security forces cleared the area.

Pakistani authorities had suspended the supplies on Friday and stopped over 30 NATO trucks at the Torkham border due to security concerns.

Earlier on Saturday, Landi Kotal Tehsildar Javedullah Mehsud had told Daily Times said that the supplies would remain suspended unless the law and order in the area improved, adding that no alternative route for the supply was being considered. Mehsud had said that a deployment of armed squads for the security of the convoys carrying goods to Afghanistan was also being considered and also hinted that the check posts for Khasadars and FC might be erected to keep the route safe from militants. staff report/daily times monitor

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