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The Himalayan Times 30 June 2016 Irresponsible statement Recently, the government has brought out statute implementation plan with the details of the exact date and months. If everything goes well, this work plan looks splendid in terms of its successful implementation. However, it did appear that the government had done enough home work before bringing out the plan. Local level election, which is the backbone of ground level democratic process, has not been done for the last 14 years. What a pity it is to see that the so called major parties, who claim to be the champion of democracy, had completely failed to hold it? All the development budgets allocated for the local level development have been grossly misused due to the lack of proper governing bodies. On the other hand, it did not suit Prachanda, Chairman of CPN Maoist Centre, publicly saying that the statute implementation plan formulated by the government cannot be implemented as reported in “Statute imple...

                                                                                       The Kathmandu Post 26 June 2016 SHOCKING NEWS Every Nepali, who heard about the killings of 12 Nepali by the suicide blast in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan on June 20 must have been shocked and wondering as to why the Taliban extremists attacked Nepali migrant workers (“Kabul incident a grim reminder”, 24 June, Page 1). There is no appropriate word for condemning such cruel, gruesome and inhuman act. It is the second deadliest attack on unarmed Nepali migr...

The Himalayan Times 22 June 2016 It’s a cruel act Millions of Nepali migrant workers are found legally and illegally working in many parts of the world due to lack of employment opportunities in the country. So far, the government does not seem bothered about retaining them in the country by creating jobs. Instead, we are happy to collect billions of rupees as remittance from Nepali workers abroad every month. A number of these migrant workers are in the jails for overstaying and possessing illegal documents. And, some of them are lying on the hospital beds in an unconscious state for many months and some of them have become disabled and even lost their lives. Every Nepali, whoever heard the killings of 12 Nepali by suicide blast in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan on Monday morning, must have been shocked “12 Nepalis killed in Kabul suicide blast” (THT, 21 June, Page 1). There is no appropriate word for condemning such a gruesome and inhuman act while se...