FIVE-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE SOUGHT FOR HIRED INDIAN KILLER

NO AGREEMENT TO CHOOSE PRACHANDA’S SUCCESSOR

Kathmandu, 5 April: There was no agreement at an informal meeting Tuesday between Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal, Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Nemwang and top party leaders to name Chairman Prachanda’s successor as chief of a sub-committee to resolve differences on articles to be incorporated in a constitution that has to be promulgated by 28 May.
The Maoist chief withdrew saying he had a busy schedule and proposed his party Cive-chairman Narayan Kazi Shrestha has a replacement amid objections from other parties. .
The main constitution drafting committee empowered the sub-committee to qquicken the drafting process as the procedure would take more time in the 598-member assembly.
It’s almost certain the second deadline topromulgate theconstitution by the end of may will be missed.
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FIVE-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE SOUGHTFOR INDIAN SERIAL
KILLER MANMEET SINGH

Kathmandu, 5 April; Police charged hired Indian killer Manmeet Singh
for illegal possession arms and pressed for a five-year jail sentence at the district attorney office Monday.
Singh entered the high security Central Hail last month and failed to shoot dead l Nepali media tycoon Yunis Ansari-- Nepali national—for dealing in fake Indian currency and drug dealing.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the failed murder attempt.
last month.
Singh will also be charged for a more serious attempted murder charge.
Charges are also being filed against French serial killer Charles Shobraj and an Indian national Amar Tandon.
Shobraj has been convicted for murdering an American and Canadian
backpacker.
Singh met Shobraj several times before the attempted murder at Central
Jail where he’s lodged with Ansari.
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NEPAL TO BE DECLARED MINE FREE 14 JUNE

Kathmandu, 5 April: Nepal will declared mine free 14 June, UND Resident Representative Robert Piper said.
Jordan’s Prince Mired Bin Raad Al-Hussein will attend a function marking the occasion.
Maoists and Nepal Army laid the mines during the 10-year Maoist people’s war.
People have been killed or injured regularly in explosions of abamdoved bombs.
Two children died last week in Humla.
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SOUTH KOREAN AGENCY COMPLETES 20 YEARS
WORK IN NEPAL

Kathmandu, 5 April: Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) has completed 20 years of support and co-operation in Nepal investing $35 million so far, an announcement said.
Nepal is the agency’s priority list.
Koica is currently implementing six projects in Nepal.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“The creative hands of People’s Volunteers will also smash
Those who surrender to external forces.”

(Chairman Prachanda, The Himalayan Times, 5 April)

‘If the request for Iraq comes, w e won’t have any problem
deploying troops there. But, we won’t send troops either under
US or NATO command,”

(PM’s foreign advisor Milan Tuladhar, The Himalayan Times, 5 April)
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PARTY WON’T BREAK; BABURAM BHATTARAI





Kathmandu, 5 April: UCPN-Maoist vice chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai Monday said that intra party ideological clashes were common in a dynamic political party, The Rising Nepal reports from Hetauds..
Opening a cooperative institute in Palung of Makawanpur, Dr. Bhattarai said that healthy intra-party ideological differences would help move the party towards the right path.
Claiming that the media reports about the ideological clashes within the UCPN-Maoist were different from the reality, Dr. Bhattarai said his party would move ahead in unity to resolve the problems faced by the country.
He said that reactionary forces were trying to obstruct the constitution drafting process by taking advantage of the protracted transitional period and added that there was no alternative to the conclusion of the peace and constitution drafting processes to free the country from the current crises.
He said that challenges were posed to institutionalize the decisions made to go for a republic and federalism and added that the extended term of the Constituent Assembly was being wasted.

He said that cooperatives should be made a means of economic revolution.
Earlier in Daman, he told the journalists that conspiracies were being hatched to dissolve the CA before drafting the new constitution.
He said that power-greed of the political parties delayed the drafting of the constitution.
"The constitution could be drafted within the stipulated timeframe if the political parties work as per the commitments they have expressed," he said.
In another context, he said the rumours that he was breaking the party were spread deliberately with ill intentions.

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