Bomb aimed at targeting Nato supply defused

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PESHAWAR: The law enforcement agencies foiled a sabotage bid in Khyber Agency as a roadside IED planted to target Nato containers was defused, while in a seperate incident the bomb disposal unit defused bomb near the house of a tribal areas candidate in Peshawar.

The political administration officials say that the bomb planted along Pak-Afghan Highway near Jamrud was defused and was targeting Nato supplies.

The bomb disposal expert official Abdul Haq cofirmed that his unit defused a bomb near the house of an independent Candidate Nosahd from Bajaur Agency in Bashiraabd area on main Pajagai road.

The bomb was locally made and weighed about two and a half kg.

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