Afghan 'police officer' kills six Nato troops

Six Nato troops in Afghanistan were shot dead during a training work out today by a man wearing a border police uniform, the alliance said.

The happening took place in eastern Afghanistan where the majority of distant forces are from the US. There are no British troops in the region. It is the worst happening involving foreign troops in more than a month.

"An individual in an Afghan edge police uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Forces throughout a training mission today, killing six service members in eastern Afghanistan," the Nato-led force said in a declaration. It said the gunman was then killed in an exchange of shots with other troops.

The gunfire occurred in Pachir Wagam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an Afghan administrator told the linked Press.

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Political killing stokes tensions in Pakistan city

The decision party in Pakistan's biggest city accused its main political rival of underneath Islamist militants alleged of assassinating a party leader, further stoking tensions Tuesday after 45 people died in a night of revenge attacks and arson.

The charge appeared to mirror the complex and vicious political and ethnic faultiness that crisscross Karachi, also Pakistan's commercial hub and home to the major port for supplies to U.S. and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan.

It has extended been plagued by following aggression between supporters of rival parties that draw votes from different ethnic groups that live in the city of 16 million people. Their groups are accused of running defense rackets and illegally seizing land, muddying the picture as to the reasons for the bloodshed.

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