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Reuters via http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/07/03/sig...-times-to-come/
July 3, 2007
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nepal Muslims demand seats in national election</b>

“…A leading Muslim group in Nepal said on Saturday it would organise street protests if the government does not meet its demand to set aside seats for its community in November elections.

…Mohammed Nizamuddin, president of the Muslim group Awam Sahara Nepal, said <b>“If the government does not address our demand we’ll be forced to come to the street and protest for it”…</b>

…The election, the first national vote in more than eight years, will cap a peace process with the Maoists ending a decade-long civil war which killed more than 13,000 people.

<b>Muslims comprise about 4 percent of the population. Ijaharul Hak Mikrani, president of another Muslim group, the Intellectual Muslim Association of Nepal, demanded at least 50 seats for the Muslims in the 497-member assembly.”</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->