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Bangladeshi security forces have placed a leader of a separatist group from India’s north-east under house arrest, officials of both countries said.
The chairman of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), Arabinda Rajkhowa, and his family have been living in the capital, Dhaka.
There are unconfirmed reports that Bangladeshi forces have held two more Indian rebel leaders.
The Ulfa rebels have fought for a separate Assamese homeland since 1979.
More than 1.000 US and Afghan troops have launched a fresh offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in the first major operation since Barack Obama, the US president, announced his new Afghan strategy.
US Marines, Afghan soldiers, and other Nato forces gathered behind Taliban lines in the northern end of the Now Zad Valley of Helmand province on Friday, Nato and US military officials said.
Officials said another, larger force was pushing north from the town of Now Zad as part of the operation that the military has termed “Cobra’s Anger”.
