Tokyo - Asia's stock markets surged Tuesday after the governments of the world's leading industrial nations announced plans to fight the global financial crisis.

Tokyo's stocks rocketed Tuesday with the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average rising 13 per cent in morning trading after Wall Street's overnight surge.

After being closed for a holiday Monday, the Nikkei rose more than 1,000 points to cross the important 9,000 barrier. Other markets in Asia also posted substantial gains.

Kabul - A woman and a child were killed in a rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan, while two Afghan private security guards and five suspected Taliban militants were killed elsewhere in the country, officials said Monday.

The woman, 55, and a 14-year-old boy were killed when a rocket fired allegedly by Taliban fighters hit their house in Khost city Sunday, Khost province police chief General Abdul Qayoum said.

Qayoum said two other children were wounded in the rocket attack that he blamed on Taliban militants.

Islamabad - Pakistan's army said on Monday it had killed at least 10 Taliban militants in troubled Swat district, while one civilian also died in the offensive against insurgents.

The casualties came one day after 37 rebels reportedly died in shelling by helicopter gunships on their hideouts in the country's lawless tribal region.

The army launched a search-and-cordon operation in the Khwazakhela area of Swat valley Saturday night after an attack by heavily armed rebels on a check post, military spokesman major Murad Khan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

It continued through Sunday and was completed early Monday, leaving 10 militants dead, he added.

Peshawar, Oct 13: The NWFP government is planning to increase economic activity through offering more government jobs in the province in a bid to curb the wave of Talibanisation, the ruling party the ANP (Awami National Party) has said.

In a statement, ANP working committee member Gul Mina Bilal said that the Taliban were “misguiding unemployed youths, who were joining their ranks”.

Islamabad - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari warned that any breach of a river water-sharing treaty by India will be detrimental to the peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbours, media reports said on Monday.

The statement came two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the controversial 450-megawatt Baglihar hydroelectric project over the Chenab River that flows from Indian-administered Kashmir into Pakistan.

Peshawar, Oct 13: Pakistani security forces claimed to have killed 27 Taliban, including 12 bombers, in an air-strike in the Orakzai Agency, here last evening.

The Frontier Corps (FC) described it as a “highly successful action”.

“In a highly successful action in Orakzai Agency, a combat aviation strike killed 27 Taliban,” a statement from the Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters said and added that those killed included two important Taliban commanders.

Credible sources confirmed that 12 persons among those killed were “would-be suicide bombers”, the Daily Times quoted the FC statement as saying.