Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, April 14

NATO commander in Afghanistan John Nicolson said here on Friday that the timing of using a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb was not related to outside events.

Answering questions about the timing of using this weapon at a press conference at Government Media and Information Center, Nicolson said, "We have been conducting operations against Islamic States in Afghanistan for the past year." (Afghanistan-Massive Bomb)

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NEW DELHI -- The Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) in charge of education has ordered an investigation into a school textbook that described feminine proportions of 36"-24"-36" as "the best," officials said Friday.

The ministry's action comes in response to a sexist passage from a textbook on Health and Physical Education describing physical and anatomical differences between male and female bodies and underlined the "best" body shapes. (India-Textbook)

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ISLAMABAD -- The Urdu language edition of the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" was launched here on Friday and the launching ceremony was attended by around 300 Pakistani and Chinese officials, academicians and researchers.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Jiang Jianguo, vice head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, participated in the ceremony. (Pakistan-China-Book)

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JAKARTA -- Rescuers on Friday evacuated the body Rio Pasaribu, the pilot of a cargo plane that crashed into a mountain on Wednesday in Papua province, easternmost of Indonesia, spokesman of national search and rescue office Marsudi said.

The body has been removed from the scene in a deep forest in Oksibil district to a nearby hospital in the district, the spokesman disclosed. (Indonesia-Cargo Plane-Pilot) Endit