A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistantargeting a group of insurgents near the Pakistani border killed at least 12 militants Friday, the international military coalition said.

Pakistani intelligence and Afghan officials said Mullah Dadullah, the self-proclaimed leader of the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan's Bajur tribal area was killed, although they offered conflicting reports on the exact location of the strike. NATO could not confirm that a senior militant had been killed.

Conflicting reports out of the rugged and remote regions along the Afghan-Pakistan border are common shortly after an attack.Kunar provincial official Aslam Gul Mujahid said the airstrike killed 20 people, including Dadullah. Pakistani intelligence officials said Dadullah and 19 others were killed, but they said the airstrike took place in Pakistan's Bajur region, just across the border from Kunar.

The Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said the strike occurred after a cross-border attack by Pakistani Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan.Two Pakistani militiamen also were killed, local tribesmen said on condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety.

The Pakistani intelligence officials said the militiamen and army soldiers fought the militants for hours but eventually repelled the attack.Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack on the outpost in a telephone call to The Associated Press.

It was unclear whether Pakistani and coalition officials coordinated the strike or whether NATO fired on the militants after noticing activity on the border.Pakistan has criticized Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces for not doing enough to stop cross-border attacks by Taliban militantsagainst targets inside Pakistan.Also in the east, authorities said Friday that insurgents kidnapped three Afghan soldiers and another man from a bus in eastern Afghanistan and killed all four.

               The Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML have said they will not attend any "all-party interaction" that the Federal Democratic Republican Alliance (FDRA) plans to hold.Terming the formation of the alliance as unfortunate, NC and UML leaders said leaders of the ruling parties have adopted "double standards.Taking a swipe at the alliance,UML Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam said, While Prachanda appeals for dialogue in the centre, he has repeatedly instructed his party cadres to physically assault supporters and cadres of the NC and the UML in the districts  Gautam said. "The alliance has painted democratic parties like the NC and the UML as anti-federal forces. As such, UML will not participate in any programme organised by the alliance," he added.Gautam, however, said his party will attend meetings called by any individual party, including the UCPN (Maoist), to talk ways to end the protracted political impasse.NC Spokesperson Dilendra Prasad Badu said his party cannot trust the alliance and said the formation of the bloc is "a ploy" to prolong the tenure of the government.

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अहिले चर्चामा आएकी नायिका सुस्मा कार्कीलाई हेर्न दर्शक को खुब भिड लाग्ने गरेको छ चलचित्र मन्दिर हरुमा,'नेपालीहरू बाहिरी दुनियाँसँग यौनका विषयमा छिःछिः र दुर-दुर  गर्छन्, भित्र भने यौनबाहेक केही  सोच्दैनन्।' यो कुरा नायिका सुष्मा कार्कीलाई पनि लाग्न थालेको छ। के दर्शक हरु सुस्माको हट सिन हेर्न मात्र आएका हुन त? कि सुस्मा को कि सुस्माको अभिनय राम्रो भएर? त्यो त दर्शकलाई  नै सोध्नु पर्छ।
तर साप्ताहिक पत्रीका सँग कुराकानी गर्दै के भन्छिन त् सुस्मा ?

फक्रेका बक्षमाथि सूर्यआकारको ट्याटु खोपेकी सुष्माले त्यसको प्रर्दशन पनि बडो उदारताका साथ गर्छिन् ।यस्ती हट नायिकालाई दर्शकले भने सेक्सको मामिलामा मात्र बुझेको सुष्माको गुनासो छ । ‘सबै हिरोइन पैसा लिएर सेक्स गर्छन, सवैको कसै न कसैसँग सेक्स भिडियो बनेको छ भनेर सोच्ने दर्शकहरु धेरै रहेछन’- शुक्रबार प्रकाशित साप्ताहिकलाई अन्तर्वाता दिंदै सुष्माले भनिन- कसैले फोन गरेर, कसैले भेटमा र कसैले बाहिरफेर यस्ता कुरा गर्छन् ।’त्यही सोंचका कारण सुष्मालाई रातको लाखौं रुपैयाँ दिन्छु मसँग सुत्न आइजा भन्दै प्रस्ताव राख्ने रहेछन् । ‘एकपटक मध्यरातमा फोन आयो, म मस्त निद्रामा थिएँ, फोन उठाएपछि उसले सुरुमा राम्रो कुरा गर्‍यो, कुरा गर्दै जाँदा एक लाख रुपैयाँ दिन्छु प्लीज भन्न थाल्यो ।’- त्यसपछि मेरो होस हवास उड्यो, फेसबुकमा दुई दिन्छु भन्ने प्रस्ताव पनि आएको थियो ।’ सुष्मा भन्छिन- ‘१-२ लाख सानो रकम हैन, आखिर सुष्मामा केही त छ जसले मानिसलाई आर्कषिर्त गरिरहेको छ । तर पर्दा वा पत्रिकामा बोल्ड क्यारेक्टर यथार्थमा त्यस्ता हुँदैनन भन्ने उहाँहरुले बुझ्नुभएन् ।’

बक्षस्थलमा बनाइएको सूर्यभित्र गुलाफ भएपनि त्यसलाई मान्छे त्यति ध्यान नदिएकोमा सुष्माको गुनासो छ ।