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U.N. plea to Nepal

KATHMANDU: The representative of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Richard Benett, has asked Nepal’s government to disclose the condition of those persons who have disappeared during the period of turmoil in the country.

On Friday, the OHCHR had released a report on its investigations into a series of disappearances that occurred in Nepal’s Bardiya District in 2001-03, during the conflict between the then government and Maoists.

Mr. Benett said: “I encourage the government to take a further step and use the detailed findings in this report to reveal the truth about what happened in Bardiya and other districts during the conflict, including disclosing the fate of the missing, so that justice can be served and their long-suffering families can begin to rebuild their lives.” The 99-page report documents enforced disappearances by both the security forces and by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

Meanwhile, Nepal’s Foreign Ministry claimed that the Pakistani who was arrested during the Mumbai attacks was never arrested in Nepal. The Ministry has termed the news that appeared in the Pakistani media regarding his arrest in Nepal as “baseless.”

“The Ministry hereby refutes the news report in the strongest term and states Ajmal Kasab was neither arrested in Nepal nor was he handed over to any other country,” said the Ministry.

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