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trucking terminal in Quetta supplying troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.
A number of oil tankers and goods trucks were parked in the temporary terminal after Pakistain shut down supply lines for NATO forces in anger at a deadly cross-border air strike which killed 24 Pak soldiers.
Senior police official Malik Arshad told AFP that unknown gunnies fired bullets and a rocket at the NATO oil tankers and the ensuing blaze engulfed 15 to 20 vehicles in Quetta, capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan
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"We do not know about any casualties yet because the blaze is so huge," Arshad said.
"First the fire started in two oil tankers and the fuel started leaking which spread the fire to other vehicles," Arshad said.
"Fire brigade and emergency services were called in immediately after the attack," he said.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack but the Taliban have in the past said they carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies for the more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters frequently launch attacks on NATO supply vehicles in the northwest and southwest regions of Pakistain, which border landlocked Afghanistan.
Most supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are usually shipped through Pakistain, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
NATO has launched an investigation into the raid last month in which 24 Pak soldiers were killed.
The lethal November 26 air strike has brought the fragile Pak-US alliance to a fresh low.
Pakistain sealed its Afghan border to NATO supply convoys, boycotted this week's Bonn conference on the future of Afghanistan and ordered US personnel to vacate an air base reportedly used by CIA drones.
Pakistain shut its main northwestern border crossing to NATO supply vehicles for 11 days last year after a cross-border NATO helicopter assault killed two Pak soldiers.
Scores of NATO supply vehicles were destroyed in gun and arson attacks while that crossing was shut, as Talibs stepped up efforts to disrupt the route in response to US drone strikes in Pakistain's tribal belt.