Former Test spinner Akram Raza, who was recently arrested on charges of illegal betting, has said he will share the details of the police case against him with the PCB but only after the verdict of the court.

The death toll in a devastating suicide car bomb attack in Northwest Pakistan on Friday rose to 36 as more bodies were pulled out of the rubble of buildings that collapsed when the attacker detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in a congested area of Hangu city.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was even more committed to Pakistan after Osama bin Laden's killing, but said the country needed to do more in its battle with Islamist militants.

A farmer, venting his anger at a court ruling, set off three car bombs on Thursday morning near different government buildings in an eastern China province, injuring five people, officials said.

A disgruntled farmer upset over a legal case was allegedly behind a series of explosions that struck government buildings in Eastern China on Thursday, killing two people and injuring six, state media said.

Nearly 10 million people in China's central Hubei province have been hit by a severe drought that dried up water sources and destroyed thousands of hectares of crops.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has urged the US to "involve people" for sustainable and effective curbing of terrorism. On a visit to the US, Zia, currently leader of the opposition in Parliament and chief of main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was honoured by the New Jersey State Senate.

The deadly attacks on military establishments in Pakistan indicate that militants have “an upper hand” over the government, a Dhaka daily said on Wednesday and added that the developments were disquieting for the South Asian region.

Pakistan was being attacked both by terrorists and the US, says former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "Both terrorists and America are attacking Pakistan because of the cowardice of our rulers," Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said.

A team of foreign inspectors due to visit Japan's stricken Fukushima plant began questioning officials today as part of a fact-finding mission on the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.