Set Ablaze: NATO container torched in Mastung

QUETTA:

Armed men on Tuesday torched a container, carrying military hardware for Nato forces stationed in Afghanistan, near Dasht area of Mastung district, about 45 kilometres south of Quetta.

According to the Balochistan Levies, the Nato container was on its way from Karachi to Kandahar, Afghanistan when assailants on a motorbike opened fire at it, injuring the driver. Later, armed men set the container ablaze and escaped. Levies personnel rushed to the spot soon after the incident and shifted the injured driver, Abdul Majeed, to Quetta for treatment.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 16^th, 2011.