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By Farzana Shah-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Pakistan

A commission investigating last month's deadly attack on Sri Lankan cricket team, on Tuesday requested evidence from the touring players. According to sources the tribunal constituted for probing the attack after recording statements from officials and witnesses has sought the statements from Sri Lankan players. The tribunal asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Foreign Office to get recorded statements from the Sri Lankan players. Earlier Justice Shabbar Rizvi recorded statements of local officials, journalists and the owner of a shopping centre near where up to 12 attackers assaulted the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore.

By Shafiq Gafoor

It was reported on 05th April 2009 that the valiant ground troops of 58 Division captured one of the most exciting military articles during the Eelam War IV of the LTTE, the terror outfit which was once renowned for its ferocity & innovativeness in the ways & means of attacking the government forces. It is true that the total credit for capturing such a "prize of war" should go to all those brave sons of mother Lanka who are out there shedding blood & sweat alike to eliminate the remaining tigers who are struggling to catch their last breath. Yet, it is sad to see that there are a few militarily illiterate people in Colombo who desperately write "anything" on "anything" even if they don't know "anything" about such.

M.A. Kader-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Bangladesh

Seven MPs-elect in the by-election of April 2 will take oath today (Wednesday). Speaker Abdul Hamid will administer the oath ceremony, a government handout said. Ruling Awami League bagged three more seats, including Jatiya Party stronghold Kurigram-2, in last Thursday's by-elections. BNP won two seats, Bogra-7 going to former speaker Mohammad Jamiruddin Sircar, and Bogra-6 to former law minister Moudud Ahmed. Jatiya Party’s (JP-Ershad) Roushan Ershad, wife of party chief HM Ershad, bagged his vacated seat in Rangpur-3.

Kosh Raj Koirala – Asian Tribune Correspondent in Nepal

Ruling CPN-UML and the main opposition party Nepali Congress on Tuesday boycotted the regular house proceedings, alleging that the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which heads the government, failed to meet their demands.The CPN-UML, which is the second largest ally in the coalition government, boycotted house alleging that the Maoist did not help apprehend the murderer of its Prachanda Thaiba. Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle had shot dead UML cadre Prachanda Thaiba on March 26 as he was returning home in Butwal, a small town lying in southern part of the country. Thaiba, a cadre of the UML's youth wing, Youth Force (YF), died on the spot.

By M Rama Rao, India Editor, Asian Tribune

Chidamparam shoed Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Minister for the Interior in Manmohan Singh government Wednesday became the first Indian leader to be Bush-shoed. An angry scribe hurled his shoe at Chidambaram as he was fielding questions at the media briefing of Sonia Congress here in Delhi. The shoe missed the minister. And he was briefly detained and released. The management of the daily where the scribe is a defence correspondent for eight years immediately distanced the paper from the correspondent and gave him a pink slip,

By Quintus Perera – Asian Tribune

A discussion at the CEO Forum organized by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) was held at the Hilton Hotel Colombo on the topic ‘Beyond the war’ – Building: Human capital, organization and economy. The discussion was carried out considering the imminent end of the war that ran for nearly three decades and cost the country billions of dollars and thousands of lives. Mourad Mankarios, Principal Coach, SIM raising a question at the forum asked whether they are ready when the guns cease to fire, making the keynote address

The Royal institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden has granted 20 Distance-based study opportunities for 20 Sri Lankan Engineers who are attached to the Ministry of Vocational and Technical Training to pursue Masters of Engineering studies in the stream of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) for year 2009. The proposed opportunity granted under Distance Education in collaboration with the KTH in Sweden. The University of Vocational Technology which is under the Ministry of Vocational and Technical Training in Sri Lanka now has to find suitable Engineering graduates who are already attached to the 9 Regional Technical Training Colleges as Lecturers.