Pakistani border guards stand near Afghanistan-bound Nato trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber. – AP

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan attacked two Nato supply trucks early Wednesday, killing a driver and wounding two other people, officials said.

Half a dozen militants armed with assault rifles launched the attack in Landikotal, a town in Pakistan's tribal district of Khyber on the border with Afghanistan, the officials said.

“The militants started firing from the hilltop. A driver of one truck was killed on the spot, while his helper and another driver of another truck were injured,” local administrative official Iqbal Khatak told AFP.

Intelligence officials said the militants fled after the attack, and confirmed that the trucks were carrying goods for Nato troops in Afghanistan.

Pakistan shut its main northwestern border crossing to Nato supply vehicles on September 30 for 11 days after a cross-border Nato helicopter assault killed two Pakistani soldiers.

The bulk of supplies and equipment required by foreign troops in Afghanistan is shipped through Pakistan, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through central Asia.