Three Maoist suggestions to PM Nepal

Kathmandu, 9 Aug: UCPN (Maoist) has offered three suggestions to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal who is visiting India later this month, Annapurna Post reports.
Chairman Prachanda told Nepal no to sign an extradition treaty, review a 1950 friendship treaty and reject proposal to install a scanning machine of the ground at TAI.
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Students and relatives protest

Kathmandu, 9 Aug: Students and relatives of seven persons killed and injured in a vehicular accident in the capital staged a protest in the capital Sunday morning.
Area around Ratna Park is tense.
Biplab Man Singh, 20, suspected for driving the car involved in the accident is a repeated offender, published reports said.
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‘There’s India’s direct involvement behind the fall of the Maoist-led government. Prachanda resigned as prime minister because of direct Indian intervention.)

(Maoist leader Mohan Kiran Baidya, Annapurna Post, 9 Aug.)

“The May announcement [by British government to
allow some ex-Gurkhas to settle in UK) was like rubbing salt in the wounds of hundreds of Gurkha widows struggling to survive here. But, we’ll continue fighting for equal rights for the elderly widows in order to end discrimination against them.”

(A GEASO member, The Himalayan Times, 9 Aug.)

“If the UCPN (Maoist) leadership wants the parliament to discuss the issue of civilian supremacy, it must be brave enough to table an impeachment motion against the president, for the interim constitution offers no other alternative.”

(Communication Minister Shanker Pokhrel, The Kathmandu Post, 9 Aug.)
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