13 April 2011 Last updated at 09:22 GMT 
Pro-government tribal elder Haji Malik Zarin was killed in the blast in Kunar province near the Pakistan border.
Mr Zarin, a close ally of President Karzai, died along with his son and another family member.
A Taliban spokesman denied the group carried out the attack, saying that Mr Zarin had "his own enemies".
President Karzai's office described the killing as a "tragic loss".
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says that the area where the attack took place has seen an upsurge in violence.
Bomber 'hugged elder'
A suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people in an attack on tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry has said.
Mr Zarin, a close ally of President Karzai, died along with his son and another family member.
A Taliban spokesman denied the group carried out the attack, saying that Mr Zarin had "his own enemies".
President Karzai's office described the killing as a "tragic loss".
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says that the area where the attack took place has seen an upsurge in violence.
Bomber 'hugged elder'
Mr Zarin was a former military commander in the civil war in the 1990s. He had survived a previous assassination attempt.
He was killed as a village shura, or meeting of local elders, came to an end in Asmar district.
"The suicide attacker approached them, hugged Malik Zarin and then detonated the explosives strapped to his body," district police chief Mohammad Shoaib told the AFP news agency.
Correspondents say that the Taliban and other insurgents frequently target pro-government figures as part of their campaign against government forces and about 130,000 international troops in Afghanistan.
Mountainous Kunar is among Afghanistan's most restive provinces and is one of the chief strongholds of the Taliban and their al-Qaeda-linked allies.
Suicide attacks and roadside bombings are the main tactics used by the insurgents.
(source:BBC)
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He was killed as a village shura, or meeting of local elders, came to an end in Asmar district.
"The suicide attacker approached them, hugged Malik Zarin and then detonated the explosives strapped to his body," district police chief Mohammad Shoaib told the AFP news agency.
Correspondents say that the Taliban and other insurgents frequently target pro-government figures as part of their campaign against government forces and about 130,000 international troops in Afghanistan.
Mountainous Kunar is among Afghanistan's most restive provinces and is one of the chief strongholds of the Taliban and their al-Qaeda-linked allies.
Suicide attacks and roadside bombings are the main tactics used by the insurgents.
(source:BBC)
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