PESHAWAR, The Nato supply through Pak-Afghan border of Torkham lay suspended for five days now, Geo News reported Monday.

According to the sources of Torkham border, the containers packed with Nato supplies are not being allowed to cross the border; their clearance is hitherto suspended, as around 200 Nato containers are standing in the area to cross the border into Afghanistan.

It should be mentioned here that Pakistan suspended the supply line after the martyrdom of Pak security forces in the incident of shelling from helicopters of the allied forces, which violated the country’s airspace.

A high-level team of Pak Army was sent to Afghanistan for probe into the violations of Pakistani airspace by Nato forces. The Pak team is probing the incident in sync with Nato officials.

Meantime, the incidents of attacks on Nato containers are on the rise in Pakistan.

Some days back, the Nato oil containers were attacked in Shikarpur, where several oil tankers were destroyed. Nato supply oil tankers were attacked in Islamabad during Monday night.

Pakistan held these attacks as the public reaction.

KABUL, Nine foreign troops were killed in a NATO helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military alliance said, taking the overall death toll among foreign forces to an annual record.

Two NATO troops, an Afghan soldier and a US civilian, were also injured, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.

"The cause of the crash is under investigation," it said. There are no reports of enemy fire in the area.

It gave no details on the nationalities of those killed or the exact location of the crash.

The four injured people had been taken to an ISAF medical facility, the statement said.

The crash has raised the death toll among foreign troops in Afghanistan this year to 529, according to a toll based on the icasualties website, surpassing the figure of 521 for 2009.

A total of 2,097 coalition troops have now died since the US-led invasion of 2001 which ousted the Taliban regime.