Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1645 GMT, April 30

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke to his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Thursday,and offered assistance to the earthquake-hit people in India, officials said.

Indian officials say that over 50 people were killed in the Indian states of Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh in earthquake this week. Hundreds more were injured and missing. ( Pakistan-India-Assistance)

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ISLAMABAD -- Police in the Pakistani capital on Thursday registered case on murder and terrorism charges against the former CIA Station Chief in a drone strike that had killed two people in 2009, lawyers said.

Kareem Khan, a resident of Mirali, North Waziristan Agency who had lost his son and his brother in a drone attack carried out by the CIA in 2009, approached the Islamabad High Court to register case against two CIA officials, Jonathan Banks and John A Rizzo. Khan had moved the application in 2010. (Pakistan-CIA-Murder Case)

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KATHMANDU -- The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Nepal climbed to 5,844, said the country's Ministry of Home affairs in its latest update on Thursday.

Earlier, the National Emergency Operation Center under the ministry said that Sindhupalchowk is the worst-hit district with 1, 587 people killed after the 7.9-magnitude hit Nepal on Saturday. ( Nepal-Toll)

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OSAKA, Japan -- Dozens of citizens rallied to protest against removing of exhibits on Japanese atrocities in WWII in Peace Osaka, a museum that reopened on Thursday after six months' redecoration.

The museum, dedicated to exhibiting historical records about wars so as to promote peace, used to exhibit photos and archives on the United States' air raid of Osaka in 1945, as well as Japan' s invasion of other countries and regions such as China, Korea and southeast Asia in WWII. (Japan-Museum-War Atrocities) Endi