Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, April 5

A court in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka has granted conditional bail to ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in two cases filed by the country's anti-graft body.

The court on Feb. 25 issued an arrest warrant against Khaleda Zia, scrapping her bails in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust cases. (Bangladesh-ex-PM-Bail)

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DHAKA -- A severe nor'wester has left at least 30 people dead, hundreds injured and a swathe of destruction in a number of Bangladesh districts on Saturday night.

North western Bogra district, some 197 km of capital Dhaka, accounted for the highest number of 17 deaths in the storm that struck last night. (Bangladesh-Storm)

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TOKYO -- Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga met with governor of the country's island prefecture of Okinawa Takeshi Onaga on Sunday with focus on the controversial U.S. Futenma airbase relocation issue, but little progress was made during their roughly one-hour meeting.

Suga insisted that the current relocation plan of the Futenma air station is the "only solution" with considerations of Japan-U. S. defense alliance and the safety issue over the airbase. (Japan- Okinawa-Military Base)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least ten suspected militants were killed and several others injured when Pakistani Army's jet fighters launched an airstrike in the country's northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency on Sunday.

Radio Pakistan said that the jets pounded five militants' hideouts in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency, a semi-autonomous tribal area along Pakistan-Afghanistan border. (Pakistan-Airstrike) Endi