Parliamentary committee proposes to tax NATO supply

The vehicles pass through Pakistan on their way to Afghanistan.


The charges might include taxes on fuel in addition to port and storage fees, they said.


The supply route is a lifeline for Nato troops but Pakistan closed it last month after 24 of its soldiers were killed in a Nato air strike.


Thousands of tankers are now stranded.


On Sunday, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the BBC that Pakistan may continue its blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan for several weeks.


On the same day, gunmen attacked tankers stranded in the province of Balochistan for the second time in four days.


The attackers shot dead a driver and destroyed seven tankers.


The charges might include taxes on fuel in addition to port and storage fees, they said.


The supply route is a lifeline for Nato troops but Pakistan closed it last month after 24 of its soldiers were killed in a Nato air strike.


Parliamentary Committee has proposed to impose tax on per litre oil supply for the United States and NATO forces because there is more than twenty rupees tax on per litre of diesel in Pakistan.


Pakistan will earn millions of rupees by imposing tax on oil and other facilities meant for NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan.


The BBC has claimed that the delivery of goods to NATO from Chaman and Torkham continued on verbal understanding.


Senior officials of the Pakistan Ministry of Defence informed BBC that no tax was imposed on NATO supply in the past while FC provided free security services security to the NATO convoys.