PAKISTANI CONVICT ESCAPES EMBARRASSING POLICE

PAKISTANI CONVICTED FOR SMUGGLING IN FAKE
INDIAN CURRENCY ESCAPES

Kathmandu, 29 March: Mohhamed Jamil, a Pakistani national
serving a jail sentence for smuggling in fake Indian currency
from Pakistan, escaped Sunday night gave a slip to five police guards and escaped negotiating a wall of a rest room of Sahid Ganagalal National Heart Center in the capital.
He was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack at Central Jail where Nepali national Yunis Ansari is also serving a jail sentence for dealing in fane Indian currency notes and drugs.
Hired Indian killer Manmeet Singh failed 10 March in a bid to assassinate
Ansari in the high security prison and survived with a bullet injury in the
a shoulder.
Five policemen have been suspended.
Jamil was transferred to the hospital 22 March and was to have
undergone a stent implant before a coronary angiogram.
The Pakistani was serving a two-year sentence with a fine of Rs. 2.5 million
for attempting to smuggle in Rs 1.55 million fake Indian currency 21 May 2010.
The latest incident has come as an embarrassment for police immediately after Singh entered Central Jail and attempted to shoot dead Ansari.
A three-member government judicial commission hasn’t started its investigation of the shooting incident in jail even a fortnight after appointment by government.
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NC CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEET POSTPONED
INDEFINITELY

Kathmandu, 29 March: A scheduled meeting of NC central
committee to begin at three in the afternoon Tuesday has been indefinitely postponed without assigning any, Secretary Basanta Gautam said.
The meeting was slated to discuss strengthening the Nepal Students’ Union—a student wing of the party-- that has been bedeviled in an internal dispute between supporters of President Sushil Koirala and three-time Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
A two-member committee headed by General Secretary Prakash Man Singh has recommended the dissolution of the office bearers of the
union and a creation of an ad hoc body to hold a general
convention to elect a new leadership.
The committee meeting began Sunday.
The central committee hasn’t endorsed the appointments by the president Vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel and General Secretary Krishna Prasad Shitaula.
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PARKED BUS BOMBED IN KAVRE

Kathmandu, 29 March: One person was injured when a bomb
planted in a parked bus exploded at Sanowangthali in Kavre
Monday.
Talak Damai was injured.
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TRADER SHOT DEAD IN MOHOTTARI

Kathmandu, 29 March: Trader Dharma Nath Sha, 50, was shot
dead in Singhai, Mohottari, Monday.
His body was abandoned in a field.
A VDC secretary was shot and injured the same day at district headquarter Jaleshwor the same day as violence mounts in the south.
Rebel groups are holding a meeting across the border in Patna,
Bihar, to adopt a strategy for protests in the south in April.
The rebel group leaders held discussions in New Delhi this
month with top leaders of three parliamentary parties on a strategy to be adopted in terai.
The chairmen of MJFD, TMLP and NSP (Mahato) were invited to the Indian capital this month for political discussions by the Indian
government.
Violence has flared up in the south after their return home.
One person was killed and 43 were injured in bomb blasts in three buses in three districts in three days.
A cooker bomb abandoned on a busy road in Biratnagar Tuesday spread panic in the town.
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13 SURVIVE AFTER BEING BURIED BY MUD AND
STONES IN GORKHA

Kathmandu, 29 March: Thirteen workers digging a road in
A remote Gorkha village bordering Tibet dug themselves out of
mud and stone rubble late Monday evening, local district officials said.
Five workers were buried alive, including a woman.
Ratna Bahadur Rana, 55, died while digging for limestone at a quarr of a cement plant in Makwanpur Monday.
In Athrai, Tehrathum, a woman died and her son and daughter were injured in a vehicular accident, Radio Nepal said.
Two persons were buried alive in a house collapse in Salyan
Monday and one person survived with injuries, state radio said.
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