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...Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee immediately equated the attack to the Sept. 11 devastation in the U.S., blamed Pakistan for backing terrorists, demanded that Musharraf crack down on them and made plain that the alternative was war. Late last week the two leaders met at a regional conference in Kathmandu and even shook hands-significant in tense times-but they were still far from resolving the crisis. Musharraf talked of distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters, while Vajpayee said he would welcome friendship as long as Pakistan prevented terrorists from "mindless violence" in India...
...insistence on national dress?great belted coats (gho) for men and wraparound cloths (kira) for women?can give a feeling of a living pantomime. But with so few tourists to see it, this is not a show put on for outsiders. And a quick look at the alternative, Kathmandu's overrun backpacker center Thamel in neighboring Nepal, only proves that the King has a point. The 21st century is catching up with Bhutan. But if you can forgive a few pairs of sneakers and sunglasses, you'll find this is still very much a land out of time...
...worst in Asia, the destination of choice since Wheeler and his wife Maureen released the first Lonely Planet book, Across Asia on the Cheap, in 1973. A well-worn trail links beaches in Goa (India), Boracay (Philippines), Bali (Indonesia) and southern Thailand and the peaks of Yangshuo (China) and Kathmandu (Nepal). In such numbers, backpackers can't help but trample culture and nature, whatever their environmental beliefs. "They tend to be like sheep, all going to the same places," admits Tony Wheeler. "That is a negative...
...prince. But history and real life show that it is all too possible. Others with a penchant for conspiracy theories will not accept the certainties that come from a straightforward expose of the facts. The legacy of the Prince of Darkness will trouble Nepal in the future. MITHUN JUNG Kathmandu...
...death of the King and nine other members of the royal family is the question that continues to confuse and convulse the landlocked country at the foot of Mount Everest more than a week after the gruesome, predinner slaughter at the King's Narahiti royal palace compound in Kathmandu. An official probe being worked on over the weekend to reach a verdict will probably put the blame on an allegedly intoxicated and unhinged Crown Prince Dipendra, who was found fatally wounded near the scene of the massacre and named King while on life support, expiring at a military hospital after...