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KATHMANDU: A backlash against the Maoists, who from a gun-toting underground organisation had become Nepal’s largest party after last month’s election, has started snowballing in Kathmandu valley after the guerrilla soldiers of the armed party killed a man once very close to them and then tried...
NEW DELHI, May 19 (UPI) -- India's Foreign Ministry says New Delhi is open to talks with Nepal on the 1950 peace and friendship treaty the Himalayan country's Maoists want to scrap. Speaking to reporters in India's West Bengal state, Pranab MukherjeeIndia said he was open to holding talks on the...
NEW DELHI, May 19 (UPI) -- India's Foreign Ministry says New Delhi is open to talks with Nepal on the 1950 peace and friendship treaty the Himalayan country's Maoists want to scrap. Speaking to reporters in India's West Bengal state, Pranab MukherjeeIndia said he was open to holding talks on the...
Ameet Dhakal Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has summoned the first session of the Constituent Assembly for May 28 but the political scene is far from clear and may actually get complicated in the next few days. The Maoists’ second-in-command, Babu Ram Bhattarai, has publicly asked...
Siddharth Varadarajan Bagdogra: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a press conference here on Saturday that Maoists in Nepal had given assurances of their commitment to the democratic process. He was replying to a question on whether India shared the concerns of some countries about the Maoists...
Kathmandu, May 17: The torture and murder of a businessman by Maoists has sparked countrywide protests directed against Prachanda, widely regarded as the prime minister in waiting. Angry residents of Kathmandu organised protests and said Prachanda had not intervened to get Ram Hari Shrestha...
Kathmandu (PTI): Sending a strong message to Maoists in India to shun violence, Prachanda on Saturday said the Leftist rebels' electoral triumph in Nepal should make them understand the difference between ballot and bullet. "Our behaviour, our policy, our practice itself strongly gave the message...
Here's a little vignette from libcom.org the libertarian communist news service. In the country of Nepal the Maoist Party has won around 220 seats in the recent Constituent Assembly (CA) election. That's about one-third of the total seats. Nepal uses a mixture of "first past the post" and...
The ideological debates and discussions with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) have to continue, says Indian Maoist spokespersonAzad. PHOTO: AP In a prepared interview, Indian Maoist spokesperson Azad says that just coming to power through Parliament cannot lead to restructuring the system in...