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When terrorism was at its peak in the Valley, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed set up terrorist camps in Pakistan where around 3,500 jihadis were trained in guerrilla warfare. This astonishing revelation has come from Kashmiri separatist leader and JKLF chairman Yasin Malik. According to Daily Times , Malik has said that Rashid actively supported the armed struggle in Kashmir by setting up training camps. Rashid trained around 3,500 jihadis in guerrilla warfare around that time, Malik has said. Malik was talking to the audience in an exhibition of 1.5 million signatures by Kashmiris demanding their involvement in the dialogue...

A top leader of Nepal's Maoists, Baburam Bhattarai, has met Indian communist leaders in New Delhi to discuss whether the rebels could join a pro-democracy alliance in the Himalayan kingdom, The Times of India daily said. The newspaper reported Wednesday that the Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat confirmed he had a meeting with Bhattarai last week, but it said he did not elaborate on topics discussed. Bhattarai, second-in-command of Nepal's Maoists, has been under fire from top rebel leader Prachanda for questioning his tactics in their fight to topple the king and set up a communist republic...