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Power fights
The government has asked the security forces to remain on high alert in the run up to nationwide protests planned for International Labour Day by the Maoists. The Kathmandu Post writes:
An informal Cabinet meeting on Thursday asked the Maoists to immediately stop their nationwide ‘military training’ and withdraw their mass protests. It also warned of [...]
Govt. cancels MRP deal with India
Faced with opposition from the political parties, and a stay order from the Supreme Court, the government decided on Sunday to scrap the contract to print machine readable passports with India. Nagarik reports:
The cabinet meeting decided to scrap the MRP deal with India. Information Minister Shankar Pokharel said “the government decided to scrap the deal [...]
Should I stay or should I go?
The United Nations is dispatching its top political official, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe, to Nepal next week to assess the peace process. He will be stopping over in India first to discuss ‘matters of regional and international importance’, which is interesting because Maoist Party’s foreign department chief just accused India [...]
Constitution first, federalism later
CPN-UML has directed its party’s CA members to ask for a State Restructuring Commission in the CA, indicating that the new constitution may be written before the finalising the details of federalism. The Himalyan Times writes:
“Restructuring the state is a very complex issue,” [UML president Jhal Nath] Khanal said, “We can also suggest leaving this [...]
‘Foreign agents’
An armed group killed a 10-year-old schoolboy in an indiscriminate firing incident in Kavre on Wednesday. Santosh Karki, a quite second grader, was on his way home from school when he was shot dead. Kantipur reports that the armed group was called by a local Maoist party worker who was facing minor disputes with his [...]
Smoking barrels
Parsa has seen a spate of violence in recent days. Unidentified gunmen killed Rajesh Mandal, deputy-regional secretary of the Maoist party in Parsa, on Tuesday, just one day after a bodyguard was killed amid gunfire targetted at Parsa’s assistant CDO Bal Bahadur Malla. The violence comes after talks between the Joint Tarai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) [...]
Dangerous game
Maoist leaders visited key points of the Nepal-India border yesterday as part of their campaign for ‘national independence’, but were at pains not to annoy India.
At the disputed Susta, Nawalparasi border, Baburam Bhattari said “foreign interventionists” and “internal reactionaries” were undermining Nepali independence. The Kathmandu Post reports:
Baburam Bhattarai said Nepalis had to fight against foreign [...]
