UPDATE FURTHER DETAILS OF CAPITALPROTESTS Kathmandu, 20 May: Journalists, and media houses were attacked and targeted by activists of Indigenous Nationalities Joint Struggle Committee (INISC) in the capital on the first day of their three-day nation-wide strike to push province based on identity. The protest was launched jointly with Broad Madesh Front of Upendra Yadav. Reporters said journalists and media houses were deliberately targeted in attacks Sunday when heir vehicles were vandalized since morning. Reporters aid verbal regret of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai against the attacks was meaningless amid threats against journalists. “We will not spare Federation of Nepalese Journalists,” an angry Ang Kazi Sherpa said as he gave a communal twist to reporting of journalists who were called anti-federalists. Forty-four persons were arrested in the capital during protests in the capital and five vehicles were vandalized in neighbouring Lalitpur, police said. :There were no incidents in Bhaktapur,”police added. The town is run by a highly nationalistic splinter communist group Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party led by Narayanman Bijukakchaya. g[and