Fearful NATO supply truckers curse their jobs

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AFP/File – Pakistani truck owners gather near the burnt-out wreckage of NATO supply trucks on the outskirts of Islamabad …

Fearful NATO supply truckers curse their jobs

by Sajjad Tarakzai Sajjad Tarakzai – Fri Jun 11, 1:25 am ET

TORKHAM, Pakistan (AFP) – Fearful of Taliban attacks and death on dangerous roads, truckers on the NATO supply line from Pakistan to Afghanistan curse their jobs and say they feel like traitors in a time of war.

An unprecedented assault on at least 30 trucks packed with military vehicles and NATO supplies on the outskirts of Islamabad killed seven people this week and renewed fears about insecurity in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Mir Jan said he had twice been threatened by the Taliban for driving NATO supplies up the infamous Khyber pass -- part of which Washington has branded the most dangerous region on earth -- and that there were nights he could not sleep.

"They stopped me twice here in Khyber. They told me to stop supplying goods to Americans," he said. "They said, we will skin you alive if you don't stop this.

"I am cursing myself for doing the wrong job. I ask myself all the time, why am I helping these kafirs (non-believers)?"