Hundreds of villagers have blocked a highway in eastern Afghanistan to protest a night raid by Nato and Afghan soldiers that left two people dead.A statement from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said two “Taliban insurgents” were killed in the raid in a district near Jalalabad.

More than 2,000 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan since the war began in late 2001, according to the independent icasualties.org website.In all, 2,002 soldiers have been killed since the US-led invasion, including 1,226 Americans and 331 British.

At least eight Afghan civilians are killed in a US air strike in the south of the country amid growing public discontent over the ever-growing number of civilian casualties.

Clashes between rival ethnic groups have left at least 1,000 people dead in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past seven months, officials say.

ZAHEDAN: Some extremist websites and weekly magazines have been insulting the Sunnis’ beliefs and accusing Sunni educational centers and scholars, the head of Darululoom Zahedan Shaikh Abdul Hameed said.

MIRANSHAH: Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Taliban faction on Tuesday urged the government to reject American aid for people affected by the nation’s worst floods in 80 years.

Violent clashes between US-led forces and Taliban militants have left several people dead in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan.

Landslides have cut off large portions of Pakistan’s Swat Valley and hampered efforts to help the 15 million people affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades.

Five more US-led troops have been killed in southern Afghanistan as the foreign death toll in the war-torn country nears two thousand.

Torrential rains in flood-hit Pakistan have hampered aid efforts and are threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 14 million people across the country.