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Eleven Maoists killed by Nepal security forces
Kathmandu: Eleven Maoist rebels, including a self-styled 'area secretary', were killed in separate encounters as Nepalese security forces launched their latest anti-terror operations across the country, Defence ministry sources said in Kathmandu on November 28.
Taleban elements still with Musharraf: Benazir
Islamabad: Launching a broadside against President Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto alleged that some of the ex-Pakistan Army officers who trained Osama bin Laden and Talebans continued to wield influence in his regime.
Bangla asks India for proof on al-Qaida charges
Dhaka: Bangladesh on November 28 asked India to provide "credible evidence" in support of its charge that Bangladeshi territory is being used by Pakistan's ISI and al-Qaida for anti-India activities.
Minority Jamali govt seeks oxygen to survive
Islamabad: A day after the Jamali government in Pakistan party was reduced to
minority following the withdrawal of support by 17-member strong Muttahida Quami
Movement (MQM), the ruling pro-Musharraf party on November 28 held talks with hard-line Islamist alliance in order to garner a required majority.
LTTE self-rule stand a paradigm shift: Lanka
Colombo: Making a positive appraisal of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
leader V Prabhakaran's latest demand for regional self-rule as a possible
alternative to total separation, Sri Lanka on November 28 said it meant a "paradigm shift" in the rebel group's thinking.
New govt won't alter stand on Kashmir: Musharraf
Islamabad: Pakistan has said there would not be any change in its Kashmir policy and the issue of granting most favoured nation (MFN) status to India depended on
improvement in bilateral relations.
Bangladesh grills arrested scribes for sedition
Dhaka: Amidst tight security, Bangladesh police is interrogating two foreign
journalists, arrested recently at the Indo-Bangladesh border on sedition charges, even as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Paris based international press watchdog the Reporters Sans Frontiers demanded the duo's immediate release.
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