NO WEAPONS OR AMMUNITION TRANSPORTED IN NATO

S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 003635 NOFORN E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/17/2018 TAGS: PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK SUBJECT: NO WEAPONS OR AMMUNITION TRANSPORTED IN NATO CONVOYS BY ROAD THROUGH PAKISTAN REF: A. ISLAMABAD 3596 ¶B. TA-314/080721-08 Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b) (d) ¶1. (S/NF) Embassy has seen ref (B) indicating that ammunition and arms off hijacked U.S. convoys are being sold in Pakistan. To be clear, no weapons, ammunition or sensitive electronics are shipped to Afghansitan by land routes through Pakistan, according to the Office of Defense Representation in Pakistan. With the recent hijacking of two U.S. Defense contracted trucks (Ref A),the Pakistani rumor mill has generated reports about weapon caches supposedly stolen from U.S. military and NATO convoys complete with elaborate descriptions of nonexistent contents of containers. Since no weapons or ammunition are ever included in cargo in any container that is shipped by U. S. Defense contractors by overland routes through Pakistan, any reports of agents buying weapons from stolen U.S. military or NATO containers are false. PATTERSON