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August 31, 2011 3:22 AM EDT
The U.S. State Department has begun the process of removing the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) from its Foreign Terrorist Organization list now that it is governing the country.
The process has come after the Himalayan nation formed a Maoist government led by its leader Baburam Bhattarai.
The party's removal from the list was confirmed by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland during a daily press briefing.
"The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is not included on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list," said Nuland.
"But it remains a designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224 and is included on the Terrorism Exclusion List, pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act.," she added. "While the party has taken some positive steps, we continue to have areas of concern which must be addressed before the party could be delisted."
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Profile of Baburam Bhattarai
DOB- 26 May, 1954
Place of birth - Belbas, Nepal
Political party- United Communist Party Of Nepal
Alma mater and his political career:
The student from Amar Jyoti Janata Secondary School topped the tough School-Leaving Certificate examination in 1970, following it up two years later with the same performance in the intermediate examination as a science student from Kathmandu's Amrit Science Campus.
Bhattarai graduated from the Chandigarh College of Architecture and followed it up with a master's degree from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, where he met Hisila Yami, his future wife, as well as Indian author and activist, Arundhati Roy.
In 1986, he completed his PhD from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, which, he says, also taught him his first lessons in communism.
His dissertation, 'The Nature of Underdevelopment and Regional Structure of Nepal - A Marxist Analysis', was published later as a book by a Delhi publisher when the Maoists were underground in Nepal, waging an armed war against the state.
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