Maoist leader slams US threat to cut aid
The United States was undermining the peace process by threatening to cut 12 million dollars in aid funding if Nepal’s rebels joined an interim government without first giving up arms, Maoist leader Prachanda said. “I am not surprised with the comments of the American Ambassador to Nepal James F. Moriarty because he doesn’t want peace in Nepal,” the rebel leader told the state-run Rising Nepal newspaper on Sunday. Full Story