Shall UNMIN Succeed in Nepal?

If the United Nations Mission In Nepal [UNMIN] has strong desire to serve the people and nation, it can enhance the peace process if it could not receive expansion of its mandate, complying the previous duties and responsibilities.
By Bishnu Pathak, PhD
Conflict Study Center
The UN Political Mission was deployed in Nepal after the Agreement of Monitoring [...]

The Carter Proposal: 70 % Proportional, 30% Direct on CA Election

Declare Republic only to be approved by CA
Compromise Proposal for Nepal
Submitted to Prime Minister and other leaders by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on 24 November 2007
After having met with as many political leaders and private citizens as possible, I find it obvious that serious obstacles remain to a successful resolution of the present [...]

Analyzing the Maoist Concept Paper

Analysis of the Maoist Concept Paper: Legitimacy of Interim government, Interim Parliament and Peace Accord Ended
By Conflict Study Center
Contributed by: Bishnu Pathak, PhD and Chitra Niraula
The following is the unofficial translation of the first-ever Concept Paper, after initiation of the Peace Process, prepared by CPN (Maoist) Supremo Prachanda and presented by Dr. Baburam Bhattarai on [...]

Nepal Government, Maoist Arms Management Agreement

Full text of the arms management agreement between the government of Nepal and the CPN Maoist on November 28, 2006.
Preamble
In keeping with the letters to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General of 9 August and the Comprehensive Peace Accord of 21 November 2006;
Guaranteeing the fundamental right of the Nepali people to take part in [...]

Explaining Those 25 Words

Americans explain theirs boss’s words to Nepal’s king
Update (20:15 NST): “I am hopeful, but not optimistic,” said Donald Camp, visiting U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs in a news conference organized by the American Embassy in the Ambassador’s residence in Kathmandu. Camp was responding a question about how he felt after meeting [...]

The Meeting & Talking

Nepal’s pro-democracy alliance of seven political parties meets and decides new programs of agitation against autocracy of king Gyanendra. But the question is, Will the Alliance be successful to bring democracy back this time?
It has been almost proved that King Gyanendra is not giving any attention whatsoever to them. Instead he keeps them blasting off [...]

25 Words, Two Commas and a Fullstop

In Nepal, we agreed that the Maoists should abandon violence, and that the King should reach out to the political parties to restore democratic institutions.
-George W Bush, President, The United States of America, at 13:10 P.M. NST, Mughal Garden, Hyderabad House, New Delhi, India. Source: The White House.
By D Wagle, in Kathmandu, of course.
That was [...]

Senator Patrick Leahy Rises to Speak on Nepal

US Senator Patrick Leahy’s statement on Nepal to Congress. Full Text.
Senator Patrick Leahy July 28: I rise to speak about the situation in Nepal, which has received too little attention by the Congress. I will not take the time to discuss in detail the history of this tiny country wedged between China and India. Suffice [...]