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Making ends meet?

Drove less to save on gas - 37 percent

Cancelled cable and other subscriptions - 12 percent

Used public transportation - 5 percent

- One-in-Five Workers Have Trouble Making Ends Meet, CareerBuilder.com, September 1, 2010.

2. About half of the oil tanker owners have halted supply to Nato forces in Afghanistan due to security reasons and the extortion money demanded by police and khasadar personnel at various points.

While talking to Dawn here on Tuesday, the owners said that regular attacks on oil tankers were scaring away the drivers and cleaners. The cleaners have to travel on the rooftop of vehicles, as directed by authorities, and remain fully alert to any attack while on their way to Afghanistan.

Long queues of tankers supplying oil to Nato forces can be seen on the Ring Road, where most of their terminals are located.

The drivers said that political administration of Khyber Agency had made it mandatory for them to cross Takhta Baig area of the tribal region before 10am on daily basis otherwise they had have to pay a fine of Rs10,000 on return.

Drivers said that the instructions had been issued to them in the wake of fresh attacks but it was very difficult for them to keep an eye on the movement of suspected person on such a long route, from Karachi to Afghanistan.

“We are doing this just to make both ends meet, otherwise it is a very risky,” they opined and said that they could not park their vehicles carrying Nato supplies outside hotels and buildings, as the residents did not allow them to do so.