Militants in Pakistan have once again attacked NATO's supply line in the country's southwest, torching an oil tanker heading towards neighboring Afghanistan.
The militants opened fire and set an oil tanker ablaze in the town of Khuz-dar in Baluchistan province on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
No casualties have been reported.
Militants have destroyed hundreds of tankers and trucks carrying oil and supplies to US-led forces in Afghanistan over the past two years.
The US military and NATO rely heavily on the Pakistani supply route into the war-ravaged country.
Supplies arrive by sea in the southern port city of Karachi, where security analysts believe most of the Afghan Taliban leadership is now hiding.
Convoys of trucks and tankers must travel through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan.
Militants in the rugged tribal area have staged violent attacks in recent months, torching hundreds of NATO vehicles destined for foreign troops in war-wrecked Afghanistan.
In response, Pakistani authorities have deployed large contingents of police and military forces on all major arteries in the area to curb the attacks.
Other routes, largely through Russia and the Central Asian states, have proved too costly, both politically and economically.
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