PAKISTAN

The Afghan government accused Pakistan on Sunday saying that it had sheltered insurgents behind the suicide bombing that killed Dawood Dawood, one of the most powerful men in northern Afghanistan.

Tribal rivalries in Yemen are complicating efforts to reach a power transfer deal, senior U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday. United States believes that al Qaeda is trying to develop instability in Yemen.

A powerful bomb exploded near a restaurant in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border killing eight tribesmen and wounding 10 others, local media reported.

Osama bin Laden and his aides wanted to make a deal with the Pakistani government under which al-Qaeda would not attack Pakistani targets in exchange for a safe haven in the country, according to a report in The New York Times.

Hillary Clinton, the U.S secretary of State on a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, said Pakistan needs to take decisive steps against Islamist militancy.

U.S. officials said documents seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, show that the dreaded terrorist had planned to cut a deal with the local government - in exchange of amnesty, Laden would refrain from attacking the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Pakistan Friday in attempt to restore sullied relations following the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month.

The relation between United States and Pakistan is showing signs of strain with Islamabad telling the Obama administration to reduce its troops in the country even as it took steps shut down three intelligence liaison centers.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on an unannounced visit in Islamabad on Friday, aimed at repairing ties and resolving tensions that were raised after the death of Osama bin Laden.

A suicide bomber killed 24 people in Pakistan on Thursday in the latest militant attack since the death of Osama bin Laden which has angered Pakistan and led to a call for the United States to withdraw some of its military trainers, a Reuters report said.

The United States will help Japan as it copes with the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, and tries to rebuild its state, President Barack Obama said on Thursday, soothing a rift between the two allies over the atomic disaster.

A bomb detonated near a court building in northwestern Pakistan has killed five people and wounded eleven others, local police officials said.

Some wives of Osama Bin Laden think his youngest wife, Amal al-Sadah from Yemen, may have tipped off the terror mastermind to the Americans. This is apparently the latest juicy detail to have escaped closed door questioning of Bin Laden's captured family by Pakistani interrogators.

The Pakistan government has asked United States to cut down the number of military trainers that the US has stationed in Pakistan, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, reported Reuters.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will likely visit Pakistan soon to discuss ways that both countries can cooperate again in the war against terrorism, according to reports.

Foreign militants are assembling in Pakistan’s wild western tribal areas preparing to assault international soldiers across the border in Afghanistan, according to a former al-Qaeda operative recently captured by NATO forces.

A Taliban suicide bomber killed six people, ramming an explosives-laden truck into a three-storey police station in Peshawar, officials said.

The wreckage of a U.S. radar-evading helicopter that was abandoned by U.S. Navy SEAL team after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has returned to the United States, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday.

David Headley testified that his handler with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Major Iqbal, told him to check out all the targets carefully, a Reuters report said on Tuesday.

A big explosion rocked the city of Peshawar city of Pakistan and gravely damaged a police station on Wednesday early morning, wounding several people and causing widespread damage stated the police.

U.S. President Barack Obama begins his visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks focusing on Libya and the Middle East.