(3 august 2011)

A NATO oil tanker was set on fire by unidentified assailants in Tera Mill of Dasht in Mastung District while it was on its way from Karachi in Sindh to Kandahar in Afghanistan.

>> in 2011 , till now there are 106 attacks on oil tankers ,

in which 52 people killed and 70 injured.

>> In 2010 - 100 attacks on Nato Oil Tankers, 37 people killed , 64 injured.

>>in 2009 - there were 25 attacks on Nato Oil Tankers , 12 people killed , 20 injured.

>> in 2008 there were 8 attacks , in which 6 killed and 55 injured.

These pictures show a recent attack on NATO oil tankers carrying supplies from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

A Pakistani passenger van rides past a burning NATO oil tanker on the outskirts of Quetta on August 3, 2011. According to an official, two NATO oil tankers carrying logistic for ISAF forces from Karachi combusted after the vehicles where intercepted by armed men and fired upon.

A man walks past a tanker that was set ablaze by a bomb blast in Landikotal, northwest Pakistan July 27, 2011. A bomb struck a NATO truck carrying fuel for foreign forces in Afghanistan in the northwestern Khyber region but caused no casualties, security officials said Wednesday.

Firefighters spray water in an effort to extinguish fire from an oil tanker set ablaze by a bomb blast in Landikotal, northwest Pakistan, July 29, 2011. A blast destroyed the truck carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber near the Afghan border.

Men gather around a burning NATO oil tanker near a market in the suburb of Peshawar, on late July 16, 2011.

A man is framed through the window of a damaged oil tanker after it was attacked and set ablaze by a bomb explosion during the night in the outskirts of Nowshera June 28, 2011. A bomb explosion destroyed the oil tanker, which was carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Local residents walk past a burning NATO supply oil tanker following an attack by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta on June 19, 2011. Gunmen torched an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan after killing its driver in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on June 19, police said.

A security official tries to extinguish a fire on an oil tanker which was set ablaze by a bomb blast in the outskirts of Landikotal, northwest Pakistan June 9, 2011. The oil tanker, which was carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan, was destroyed Thursday in the bomb blast, government official said.