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July 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to local officials the decision was made after gunmen attacked a convoy of NATO supply trucks on Tuesday in the town of Jamrud near the main northwestern city of Peshawar, killing a driver.
This was the first such attack on NATO supply trucks since Pakistan lifted a seven-month blockade of the border.
Local administration official Bakhtiar Khan confirmed Thursday the supply route had been suspended due to “security reasons.”
“Intelligence officials have informed the authority that attacks may occur on NATO vehicles this week and in the light of this a security plan is being chalked out,” Khan told AFP.
He added that the NATO route would “resume very soon,” but until it is reopened, trucks carrying supplies for the 130,000-strong US-led mission in Afghanistan will not be able to approach the border.
Pakistan closed the border crossing in November 2011 after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in US-led airstrikes on two checkpoints on the Afghan border.
Islamabad, however, decided to reopen the supply lines on July 3 after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton formally apologized for the deadly airstrikes in November. “I am sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military,” she said.
This is while people across Pakistan have staged several demonstrations against the government’s decision to reopen the routes.
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