London, Feb. 23 : In a bid to wage a "chemical jihad" on Britain, the Taliban has planned to flood the UK streets with heroin. And to carry their terrifying mission forward, they are using hate-filled Muslim gangs as heroin dealers.

Pakistan and Afghanistan based Al-Qaida and Taliban warlords have directed their dealers a task to sell a six billion pounds of heroin to non-Muslims.

The Taliban's two-faced chemical attack is not only aimed at killing many with heroin, but also to collect massive sums to sponsor future terror attacks.

Kabul  - Nineteen Taliban insurgents were killed in NATO airstrike and clashes with Afghan security forces in southern and eastern regions of the country, officials said Sunday.

Eight suspected militants were killed when their vehicle was destroyed by a NATO warplane in Nawa district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

The Afghan intelligence agents had pinpointed the armed militants driving in a vehicle and then called in NATO's air support to take out the rebels, Ahmadi said.

Separately, at least six militants were killed after they attacked an Afghan police patrol in Dand district of southern Kandahar province, Abdullah Khan, deputy provincial police chief said.

Kabul  - The speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi met Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday in Kabul for talks on a strategic review of the US mission in Afghanistan, which is currently under way in Washington, presidential palace said.

Three US-led soldiers - whose nationality was not immediately revealed - were meanwhile killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Uruzgan province.

And hundreds of Afghans blocked a key road links Kabul city to south-eastern provinces to protest the killing and arrest of Afghan civilians by US forces.

New York, Feb. 21 : In the coming weeks, President Barack Obama will have to look at ways to convince Pakistan that the fight against extremists in that country and in neighboring Afghanistan is not a favor being done to the United States, but an exercise aimed at ensuring Pakistan's own survival, both in the short and long term.

Obama will have to grapple with a series of very difficult questions, the answers to which will eventually define his administration's success or failure in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, an editorial in the New York Post has said.

Dushanbe, Feb 21 : The United States would be sending supplies to its troops stationed in Afghanistan through a new route via Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, a top US military leader has informed.

Rear Admiral Mark Harnitchek said Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to allow transit of non-lethal US supplies through their territory.

"Tajikistan has given its agreement to the use of its rail and automobile routes for the transit of non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan," The Dawn quoted Harnitchek, as saying.

London, Feb 21: Muslims living in the United Kingdom are reportedly providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs. These bombs are being used to attack British forces serving in Afghanistan.

The electronic devices are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border, enabling Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband was given details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs when he visited troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, The Telegraph reported.