Rockets fired by Pak forces kill 6 Afghans

At least five children and a woman were killed in an eastern Afghan province when Pakistani military forces fired rockets along the border in a pre-dawn assault yesterday.

Since the Taliban seized power last year in Afghanistan, border tensions between the neighbours have risen, with Pakistan alleging militant groups were carrying out attacks from Afghan soil.

"Five children and a woman were killed and a man wounded in Pakistani rocket attacks in Shelton district of Kunar," an official told AFP.

Hundreds of civilians of Khost poured into the streets chanting anti-Pakistan slogans later yesterday, Afghan media reports said.