December 12, 2008	Friday	Zilhaj 13, 1429

PESHAWAR, Dec 11: Two US military trucks were destroyed when suspected militants attacked a parking lot with petrol bombs on the Ring Road here on Thursday evening.

The assailants hurled explosives in the premises of the Bilal Parking unlike the previous attacks which had taken place around midnight on terminals meant for heavy vehicles transporting goods, including military hardware, for Nato and American troops in Afghanistan.

By the time fire-fighters finally doused the flames two military vehicles had been reduced to ashes.

“It’s time for the federal government and Nato forces to come forward and devise a strategy to improve security at these terminals because police are already overstretched because of the law and order situation,” Peshawar SSP Kashif Alam said.

He told journalists that Peshawar had a large population and the police had mostly been busy in providing security to its citizens. In the present circumstances it was not possible for the police to focus on these terminals.

Earlier in the day, a fire broke out at a terminal devastated in an earlier attack.

The fire was brought under control and no damage was reported.