PESHAWAR: Suspected militants torched four vehicles and offices of a terminal housing containers loaded with supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan here on Saturday.

A security guard told Dawn that hundreds of suspected Taliban armed with rockets and Kalashnikovs entered the Farhad terminal at about 2am and set on fire four vehicles, three cranes, a mini-truck and six power generators.

Terminal owner Farhad said four offices and a workshop were also gutted. Computers, original documents of vehicles and about one million rupees in cash turned into ashes, he added.

He said 20 policemen and eight private guards were deployed at the terminal, but militants succeeded in torching vehicles and offices.

‘I have no enmity with anyone. I never accommodated containers laden with arms and ammunitions at my terminal and the containers which have been burnt were carrying food items,’ Mr Farhad said.

Meanwhile, a team of investigators visited the Al-Faisal terminal to assess losses caused by burning of hundreds of vehicles since December last year.

Police cordoned off the area and didn’t allow newsmen to enter the terminal, saying that some foreigners were conducting inspection.

However, Cantonment Circle SP Nisar Khan Marwat parried a question about presence of foreigners and said a team had come from Karachi.

Another police official said a seven-member team from the US embassy in Islamabad visited the terminal, took some photographs of torched vehicles and after spending about 30 minutes left the place under tight security.