NATO supplies to Afghanistan blocked in NW Pakistan
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Xinhua, November 26, 2011
Pakistani security forces have blocked the NATO supplies to Afghanistan following a Saturday morning's NATO air strike at an army checkpost in northwest Pakistan, which has so far reportedly killed 25 Pakistani troops and injured 15 others, according to local media.
Local government-run TV channel PTV quoted unidentified official sources as saying that the death toll of Saturday morning 's NATO air strike at an army checkpost in the Salala village of Baizai town of Mohmmand Agency, a tribal area in northwest Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan, has risen to 25 and 15 other security forces have also been injured in the attack and some of them are in serious condition.
Following the attack, the Pakistani security forces have blocked the NATO supplies to Afghanistan at the Jamrud area of Khyber Agency, a neighboring tribal area of Mohmmand Agency, which leads to the border check point of Tor Kham, one of the two border check points through which NATO supplies are currently shipped into Afghanistan through Pakistan.
Currently nearly 70 percent of the NATO supplies are reportedly shipped to the 140,000-plus U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan through two border check points in Pakistan. The other one is located at Chaman in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan.
