Pakistan's president denies harboring bin Laden

Pakistan's president starved of proposals his country's security forces may have wrapped in cotton wool Osama bin Laden previous to he was killed by American forces, and said their collaboration with the United States helped locate the world's most wanted man.

Asif Ali Zardari said, though, that Monday's operation in opposition to bin Laden was not conducted with Pakistani forces — confirms accounts by U.S. officials that Islamabad was not involved in the raid and did not even know in relation to it until it was over.

His comments in a Washington Post view piece Monday were Pakistan's first official retort to the doubts by U.S. lawmakers and other critics, which could further sour relations stuck between Islamabad and Washington at a crucial point in the war in Afghanistan.

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Pakistan says it is key to Taliban peace talks

Pakistan's prime minister said Tuesday that calm talks stuck between the Afghan administration and the Taliban cannot be successful without Islamabad's help, a prompt of the influence the country has because of its chronological ties with the group.

The tapping about talks has picked up in new days, fueled in part by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's corroboration that his government has had informal deliberations with the Taliban on secure peace in Afghanistan "for quite some time."

Pakistan has obtainable to facilitate peace talks previously, except Afghanistan is believed to be suspicious of its motives. Pakistan helped the Taliban grab power in Afghanistan in the 1990s and many of the group's senior commander, including leader Mullah Omar, are supposed to be based along Pakistan's rugged border with Afghanistan.

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Supposed suicide bombs kill 7 at Pakistan Sufi site

Two supposed suicide bombers attacked the most much-loved Sufi shrine in Pakistan's main city Thursday, killing at least seven people, hurtful 65 others, and sending a stark prompt of the threat posed by Islamist militants to this U.S.-allied nation.

Angry mobs blazed tires and torched buses in the result of the bombings in Karachi.

The assault came amid tensions flanked by Washington and Islamabad over NATO helicopter incursions that have led Pakistan to close a key border journey used to ferry supplies to Western troops in Afghanistan. Despite U.S. regrets over the incursions, one of which left two Pakistani soldiers dead, Islamabad said Thursday it had yet to decide when to revive the crossing.

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Pakistan boundary Crossing Still Shut after US Apology

The Pakistani boundary crossing used to transport NATO provisions to international forces in Afghanistan leftovers closed Thursday, despite an apology from the United States for a cross-border raid that killed Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abdul Basit, told journalists Thursday that establishment are evaluating the security state of affairs and will make a decision on re-opening the supply route "in due course."

Pakistani powers that be ordered the Torkhum border crossing shut a week ago subsequent to NATO helicopters fired missiles at a Pakistani military post, killing two soldiers and cutting four.

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Pakistan Halts NATO Supplies After Attack

Pakistan has infertile a vital supply way for NATO forces in Afghanistan, following a cross-border NATO air strike that Pakistan says killed three of its military.

Provide trucks and fuel tankers for global troops were lined up at the Torkham boundary post in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region Thursday, hours following the NATO raid - the fourth reported by Pakistani officials in new days. The bulk of provisions for NATO forces in Afghanistan move through Pakistan.

Pakistani officials say the groups were stopped for security causes, except did not give details.

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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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