Kathmandu, October 31
Maoist chairman Prachanda has admitted of the Maoist involvement in the abduction of Bara journalist Birendra Shah.
Speaking to a team of Federation of the Nepali Journalists (FNJ) representatives and the wife of Shah at party headquarters in Buddhanagar this morning, Prachanda said that his party would give out the details in three days, according to FNJ president Bishnu Nisthuri. Prachanda also said that his party would assist the government in taking against the culprits involved in the act and added that his party had already decided to take action against the guilty.
Source: The Himalayan Times, October 31, 2007
