The Asia-Pacific region tries to rebuild confidence by sowing confusion over Osama bin Laden and the war on terror, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The US attorney-general Alberto Gonzales, the man responsible for much of the controversial counter-terrorism measures of the Bush administration, has resigned. Tamam Ahmed Jama reports

President Musharraf went on the offensive this week -- and pitched his country into freefall, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad