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	<title>Nepali Times &#124; The Brief &#187; Bidya Bhandari</title>
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		<title>Attack mode</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/02/attack-mode/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three women killed by Nepal Army soldiers in Bardiya National Park on 10 March were not poachers as claimed by the army and the defence minister, National Human Rights Commission has said. Republica writes:
&#8220;A study of the evidence shows that the deceased Devisara BK, Amrita BK and Chandra Kala BK visited Baspani area in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling his shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/22/filling-his-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bidya Bhandari]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following Koirala’s demise, the political circle is abuzz with the questions how to move ahead with the peace process and constitution writing.
After a meeting with party members in Singha Darbar, Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel said his party would continue to lead the High Level Political Mechanism. Koirala was the designated co-ordinator of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No love lost</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/18/no-love-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[B Lynn Pascoe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[B Lynn Pascoe has come and gone, but the ruckus between the government and UNMIN continues. On Wednesday, UNMIN Chief Karen Landgren wrote a letter to the government asking it to retract a statement made by Defence Minister Bidya Bhandari accusing the international agency of favouring the Maoists. According to Republica:
Landgren sent a letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration issues</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/25/integration-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/25/integration-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bidya Bhandari]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madhes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time in a country called Nepal, seven political parties decided to sign an agreement called the Comprehensive Peace Accord. Both sides were in a hurry for peace and it seems like they didn’t read what they signed, or left some provisions deliberately vague so that they would have something to quarrel about, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enemies within</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/22/enemies-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Defence Minister Bidya Bhandari have not been on speaking terms for a while. On Thursday, Nepal told the media to tell her that she can’t override his authority while she is in his cabinet. The Himalayan Times reports:
The PM appeared angry about Bhandari’s remarks that she would not abide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singh gets a promotion</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/25/singh-gets-a-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cabinet promoted Nepal Army General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh to the position of Lieutenant General on Thursday. The prime minister made the decision on Christmas Eve hoping to draw minimum attention to the announcement. Kantipur reports:
According to the Ministry of Defence, the prime minister chose the date ‘strategically’. Most embassies are on a holiday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brief on Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/25/the-brief-on-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/25/the-brief-on-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bright future
Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have agreed to set up a high level political mechanism within a week to bring the peace process back on track. Top political leaders had discussed setting up such an apparatus four months ago, but it materialised concretely after Dahal’s visit with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brief on Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/24/the-brief-of-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/11/24/the-brief-of-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bamdev Gautam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bidya Bhandari]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jhalnath Khanal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Narayankaji Shrestha]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pyar Jung Thapa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecution and promotion
The government has decided to prosecute former Chief of Army Staff Pyar Jung Thapa and several senior army officials facing charges of extra-judicial killings and human rights violations. A cabinet meeting decided to take legal action against the officials under the recommendation of National Human Rights Commission. Meanwhile, Republica reports that one of [...]]]></description>
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