Trucks are forced to crowd onto the single bridge over the Amu DaryaRiver that separates UzbekistanandnorthernAfghanistanoruse one of the hastily constructed bargesput in byNATO.
This week the Taliban bombed a bridge on the Khyber Pass along the Pakistani border with Afghanistan that served as a supply line to US forces in Afghanistan.
The trucks were returning from Afghanistan but were stranded in the town because, a day earlier, suspected militants had destroyed a bridge connecting Landi Kotal to Jamrod, another part of the Khyber Agency.