ISLAMABAD, Jan 14: A clandestine Afghan group has threatened to blow up fuel suppliers if they continue supplying US forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported on Tuesday.

“Supply of fuel and food items to US forces in Afghanistan is ‘Haram’ (un-Islamic),” a previously unknown group calling itself “Taliban and Sincere Mujahideen warned in a Pashtu-language statement sent to newspaper offices in Peshawar.

“This fuel is being used to run tanks and fly jets which are participating in operations against Muslims,” the statement added, according to AIP.

“We want to categorically state now that we have made full preparations to set ablaze hundreds of such tankers.”

The statement warned tanker owners of “death and execution” if they continued to supply US forces.

The statement came out one week after another previously-unheard of group calling itself the Secret Army of Muslim Mujahideen claimed responsibility for 50 raids on US forces in Afghanistan and warned of more attacks.—AFP