Indian invasion of Nepal in slow motion

[idune]

Why India is shielding Nepal Army Chief Katawal?


If the Maoists’ Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal still thinks that he can take a rest for over six hours, somewhere in the outskirts of Kathmandu, leaving the country in doldrums, and that too after meeting the Indian envoy and one of the declared Indian agents, then he is mistaken.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was accompanied by the families of some Maoists Peoples’ Liberation Army Commanders and his family members obviously, beloved wife Sita, heir apparent Prakash, daughter-in-law Srijana and nephew Sameer. That PM Dahal was more a family man than the country man is not also a secret either.

The rebel leader who was forcefully sent to the mainstream Nepali politics by the Indian regime which later followed by his election as the Prime Minister of the country, say experts, is bound to pay for this Indian magnanimity exhibited then.

That he is paying the dues become evident when a legitimate Government Head finds himself unable to sack the Nepal Army Chief.

After all, why the Indian regime is shielding Katwal is a Himalayan mystery? But the mystery remains no longer a secret affair for the intelligent brains and nationalists. There is no free lunch in Indian diplomacy!

PM Dahal headed straight 30 kilometers north-east of the capital, avoiding the May Day celebrations, May 1, 2009, and arrived at a resort in Lapsi-phedi VDC. However, Dahal’s destination was kept a guarded secret, say police sources.

The Kantipur daily writes quoting the Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam, the May Day is generally taken as a day of relief, thus he may have gone there to take a rest.

It was around seven in the morning, Amresh Kumar Singh the former Nepali Congress parliamentarian whose being a Nepali national remains suspect, had come uninvited to seek an audience with the Prime Minister.

What transpired in between the two, though still a mystery, but a quick guess makes it clear that the man who was chosen by the Indian establishment to act as a mediator between the then rebels and the seven party alliances to sign the 12-Points Agreement, holds lot of water in Nepali politics still.

PM Dahal was about to take on the SUV ride to an undisclosed location, there appeared the busiest man in Nepali politics, Rakesh Sood, the man who is officially known as the Indian Ambassador to Nepal whose scope and sphere of influence in Nepali politics is boundless.

PM Dahal took him to his private chamber and the two returned after ten minutes.

“The abrupt decision to stay away from May Day Celebrations was taken immediately after the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood met with the Prime Minister early morning”, adds sources.

After meeting Sood, PM Dahal talked to the Finance Minister Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai and asked him to address the May Day gathering in Public theatre in Kathmandu, to which Dr. Bhattarai readily accepted.

PM Dahal also told Bhattarai that the Indian envoy was still pressurizing him to retain Katawal or else, says Sood “await catastrophic situation in the country”.

The moot question thus again is: why Indian establishment is shielding Katawal?

What gains after all India will have upon retaining Katawal?

Or is it that Katwal has some “soft” inclination towards the Indian regime?

Telegraph Nepal : Why India is shielding Nepal Army Chief Katawal?

 

[rubyjackass]

Indications are that Prachanda(ex PM of Nepal also known as Pushpa Kamal Dahal) lost majority in Parliament as soon as he fired the army chief. So the move is unconstitutional. May be this is what the ambassador referred to as 'catastrophic situation'. This is clearly logical. Prachanda did not even try for a confidence vote or such show of strength in the House. He just resigned possibly to avoid humiliation.

Now this guy is picking up some Maoist propaganda articles against India and posting them here.

The army chief was against including ex-Maoist rebels in the army.
Clearly the President of Nepal was being reasonable in not letting the ex-Maoist rebels be called as army. Otherwise we would have seen another Myanmar. May be that's what the 'catastrophic situation' is.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nepal PM quits in army chief row

Nepal PM quits in army chief row
Prachanda makes his resignation announcement
Prachanda has only served as PM since elections in 2008

The Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, has dramatically announced his resignation in a television address to the nation.

"I have resigned from the post of prime minister," Mr Dahal - who is best known as Prachanda - said in his address.

The move follows his efforts - opposed by the president - to sack the army chief, who has refused to integrate ex-Maoist rebel fighters into the force.

The president said Gen Rookmangud Katawal's sacking was unconstitutional.

Correspondents say Prachanda's resignation has pushed Nepal into a fresh political crisis following an election win by the Maoists last year.

Into opposition

In his TV address, Prachanda said he was stepping down "for the protection of democracy and peace" in Nepal.

Maoist supporters demonstrate in Kathmandu
Nepal faces the gravest threat to its peace process since a ceasefire was agreed in 2006
Bhagirath Yogi
BBC Nepali service

Nepal: Back into the abyss?

"The move by the president is an attack on this infant democracy and the peace process."

"The interim constitution does not give any right to the president to act as a parallel power," he said.

Prachanda accused President Ram Baran Yadav of taking an "unconstitutional and undemocratic decision" by overturning his efforts to get rid of Gen Katawal.

His resignation - which is almost certain to be accepted by the president - follows months of worsening tensions between the ex-rebels and their former foes in the military.

Correspondents say that the expectation now is that the Maoists will sit in opposition in parliament. There is no suggestion that the Maoists will abandon constitutional politics, they add, but there are fears that the political crisis could threaten the peace agreement signed in 2006.

The Maoists want their fighters, who are currently restricted to United Nations-supervised camps, to be integrated into the regular Nepali army.

But the army has refused to take on the fighters, who number about 19,000 hardened guerrillas, arguing that they are politically indoctrinated.

Correspondents say that the crisis is the most serious in Nepal since its 10-year long civil war between the army and the Maoists came to an end.

The peace agreement allowed the rebels to enter the political mainstream. Last year they won elections, but not convincingly enough to hold on to power without the support of other parties.

Major crisis

Two parties which acted as key members of the coalition withdrew from the government on Sunday in protest against the dismissal of Gen Katawal.

That left the Maoists with a wafer-thin majority and the prospect of needing to win a confidence vote to remain in government.
General Rookmangud Katawal
Gen Katawal is nearing the end of his career

The latest developments came to a head when President Yadav ordered the head of the army to remain in office despite his dismissal by Prachanda.

"Being the head of the state and the supreme commander of the Nepal Army I order you to continue with your duty," the president told Gen Katawal by letter.

The BBC's Nepali editor in Kathmandu, Rabindra Mishra, says that the country now faces a major crisis which could result in the peace process unravelling, the new constitution remaining unwritten and the Maoists struggling to stay in power.

Our correspondent says that the situation at the moment is fluid, with no-one able to say whether a compromise can be reached between feuding factions.

The Maoists fought Nepal's army for more than a decade before giving up their armed revolt, and the relationship between the two sides has been tense since the former rebels came into power.

Some 13,000 people died during the conflict.

In March, the Nepalese Supreme Court ordered the defence ministry to put on hold its decision to retire eight generals from the army.

Several coalition representatives walked out of the cabinet meeting in protest at the proposed sacking, but a vote went ahead.

"We have been insisting that the decision on the army chief should be taken through consensus among all political parties but the prime minister decided to ignore us," said Deputy Prime Minister Bamdev Gautam, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Gen Katawal is due to retire in four months.

 

[idune]

INDIA GALLING PEACE OF NEPAL

June 14th, 2009

The devil’s eyes are all set to blaze inferno in Nepal. Indian ambassador Rakesh Sood once again has got activated like swine in a jungle. He holds conferences, chairs meetings and ignites processions as if the land of beauty belongs to India. A year back when the Maoists won elections the ambassador Sood tried utmost to grab the victory while garlanding the geniuses of “RAW THE RASCAL” which is bent upon disparaging peace of Asia. Sood has always been escorted by the RAW’S agents to do spoon feeding advices as a ready recknor to aggravate the situation. But the government of Nepal led by Prachanda has proved its worth right from the beginning while dislodging the crutches of India and turning deaf ears to the advices of Sood working under the umbrella of “RAW”. Prachanda the premier of Nepal had broken the shackles of remaining slave to the idea of land locked country and simultaneously refused to bow before India the self portrayed master, while setting his path by visiting China became the first blow to the expansionist designer as well as declining political yatra to India, an act unpardonable thus painting black on the quisling canvas of the “RAW”.

CHAGRIN SPIRIT

Nepalese are well aware about the ogre behavior of India which keeps architecting the menace in the files of innocent people of Nepal. They exactly know and can distinctly point a foe and a friend but India and its illegitimate son “RAW THE RASCAL” have considered the compulsion of being the land locked country a blessing in disguise. The nation of Nepal holds the ocean of wrath, the venom in abundance and great resentment to spit on the face of India and her charlatan RAW. Who would respect India which herds the waters of Nepal inside her territory produces hydroelectric power from it and then sells the electricity back to Nepal at costlier rates! Who would grace the act of India, which grabs the land of Nepal and includes the same in its territories! Who would appreciate the misdemeanor of India which steals the precious wood from her jungles! Who would like the conduct of India which settles many Indians within bounds of Nepal and then forces sovereign country to issue them identity cards and most likely chances are that India is creating a fighting force fully armed on the lines of Mukti Bahnis or LTTE to create turbulence in the peaceful country as and when wished by the RAW! And who is not aware about the chicaneries of India which keeps creating the pitfalls on the path of democracy, sovereignty and integrity of Nepal! The feud of India can be adjudged who is always ready to strengthen the corrupt politicians of Nepal by bribing them to run the government instead of politicians having love and pain for their country and in lieu the same bribable lot of politicians respond to every call & the wrong doings of the RAW. Nepal’s chagrin spirit is alive and India can draw a lesson from Prachanda’s resignation that did not leave his stance and refused to kneel down before Indian’s demand.
IMPULSES

What may occur the Maoist government had decided to take out the nation which was pledged to India since centuries. It was for the first time in the history of Nepal that the top leadership of the country had looked straight in to the eyes of India and slashed its schedule of visiting her to get the dicta of running the affairs of government instead preferred its path leading to China. Even the Moist leader Baburam Bhattarai asked leaders not to visit India and instead make indigenous efforts to complete the constitution making process. This appeal was a sign of distrust over India’s policies and the intensity of deviation displayed confidence building measures to avoid dependence promising to stand on one’s own feet. That’s how the nation is made to carve her path of destiny & feature its fate to secure future of the country.


The last few months of Maoist rule in Nepal has seen China’s level of presence and major interest in Nepal going far beyond the Tibet issue. Prachanda’s two visits to China were something that had put India in to uncomfortable situation. When an earnest effort was being made by the two governments to bridge the gulf between China & Nepal, at the same time India was trying hard to display her usual menace of weaving conspiracy to topple the legitimate government. The projection of India as a factor of instability, disregarding the formula of self respect and the undue beneficiary of Nepal’s resources, mainly hydro-power, apparently compelled Nepal to cultivate her relations with China. The RAW through Sood got in to the business of breaking process waiting for the chance to strike thus charring the long awaited democracy in Nepal. But Baburam Bhattarai, of late had showed her apprehensions openly that the RAW along with the CIA were trying to project India as at the heart of renewed conspiracy thus claiming her leverage on Nepal. The conspirers were adamant to bring back monarchy coupled with the parties who had a flexible character to charm the RAW, funding more than their need. These Yankees having their soft belly had always kept their own interest far superior to the national interest thus became always an easy prey for the RAW.

CABALISTS & THE PLOT

The frame up was ready to oust the democratic government of Nepal by the cabalists like the RAW and CIA in the streamline to punish Maoists for their crime of looking towards China and turning blind eye to the atrocious India who knew nothing but to steal the resources of Nepal when leaving politicians to fight with each other on instigation of RAW.


On the face of it, the case of firing the Nepalese Army Chief, General Rukmangad Katuwal, was intertwined. It was not that straight forward a matter because Katuwal was not only laying impediments or the bone of contention to induct former Maoist guerillas in to Nepal’s armed forces, as per the November 2006 peace treaty but it was sniffed the General was ready to conduct a coup against the civilian government as allocated a Plot planned by the RAW. The Coup d’ e’ tat was a Vendetta formed by the RAW to oust a democratic government having fault lines of paying no heed to India instead looking towards China to wheel the country on the path of glory, self respect and progress. The defiance of orders of the executive head of the state meant, just putting country’s integrity at stake and the action of the first president of Nepal following the track as planned by the RAW, had compelled the elected Premier to resign from his position for the honour of his country. Otherwise there would have been a bloodshed that’s what the RAW wished for. Prachanda recently declared himself that India supported and RAW had forced the president to carry out such a drastic decision which was unconstitutional, illegitimate, illegal and contrary while betraying the orders of the Prime Minister. If this course of “unconstitutional decision” was not workable then RAW had given the plot of moving the General in question to conduct Coup to over throw the government and the resistance casting lives would have fumed anarchy in Nepal.


This plot was supported by the CIA, planted by the RAW and acted by the first President of Nepal and his team who remains on sale through out the period of their stay in the parliament as they require money and can do what the RAW asked them to do. What a big tragedy it is that after removing the bonafide government from Nepal, India has crowned the corrupt politicians to run the government which is the bunch of brokers selected by the RAW. Once again India has come back in to a driving seat and now will keep the politicians fight, compel the Maoists to carry their arms, keep China at bay and grab all the resources of Nepal to Delhi. How pessimistic state is that now RAW will force Nepal to stand on her knees than his feet and beg for each article even that grows in Nepal. When own politicians trade and sell the honour, integrity and sovereignty of a country and are always ready to dance on the tunes of RAW for their petty gains then who can save the country from going to hell.

CULL-DE-SAC

Loosing command over circumstances means India will have a free access to score the goal and drive the nation to a cull-de-sac. Now the formulation of indigenous constitution could be a dream alone as New Delhi would send the draft to be signed by the chosen parliament of Nepal. Hindi language would be forcibly enforced to replace Nepalese. All the resources of Nepal would be pirated to strengthen India. Any parliamentarian trying to vouch for building measures would be marauded by the RAW as that sits on the neck. In the recent past the democracy chosen by the people and rejected 240 years old monarchy, would now mimic on those who laid their lives in pursuit of better future of Nepal. Madhav Kumar the new prime minister and his selected team will perform the role of a puppet hanging on a chain to please the RAW having strings in its hands and is now in a position to keep China at arms length who was trying its best to bring fresh air in the country by creating road & rail linkage and strengthening muscles of the politicians.

What a trauma! India is ready to release Rs. 56.25 million aid to Kathmandu in the guise of SAARC development plan as stated by the Indian ambassador and Nepalese Foreign Secretary who inked four separate Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at fostering cooperation. This is a visible bribe offered to Nepal on the success of Indian conspiracy against Nepal.


BACK TO THE FUTURE

India is enamoured of launching offensive by sending her Army to the neighbouring countries to support her pusillanimous act without realizing its repercussions. Indian Army was sent to China in 1962 and had bled through nose, in 1965 was defeated by the Pakistan Army, in 1971 sent her troops inside East Pakistan and the result is now facing the two Muslim countries, in the year 1987, India moved her forces to Sri lanka & had to face a massive defeat and was forced to be driven out miserably. Of course RAW can claim credit for creating fidget in Sikkim and then merger of Sikkim in to the Indian state and also engineering a bizarre drama in the Maldives while dispatching her troops and capturing this sovereign state of Maldives within 24 hours.


In light of the same South Asian Group, has analytically examined that Indian leadership being totally shameless, disregardful and alien to the norms of ethics as well so intoxicated with the idea of expansionism, fed by the RAW which is so stupid as writes B. Raman a famous journalist that in future, sure enough will have to go for the military adventurism to take over Nepal but this will not be that easy a prey for her to digest it like Sikkim or Maldives.

There is a dire need of having a potent, collective& dynamic force of South Asian Countries to sort out the Bastard and her RAW THE RASCAL who are entering in to the domain of every sovereign country thus putting their independence at stake and as well the politicians of Nepal to come out of the slumber lurking in hibernation and read what has been written on the wall “the hogs are galling the peace of Nepal”.

LankaWeb – INDIA GALLING PEACE OF NEPAL

 

[DesiGuy]

Nepali territory encroached by India

English_Xinhua 2009-05-21 11:35:34

KATHMANDU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The Legislature-Parliament's international relations and human rights committee said that in the course of its on-site visit in south Nepal, Nepali territory was encroached by Indian side, Nepali state-run newspaper The Rising Nepal reported Thursday.

The total of 685 border pillars in the Bara district, some 80 km south of Kathmandu, some 264 were found lost.

The information was based on the facts found from the on-site visit on Sunday and Monday by the committee led by Constituent Assembly (CA) member Nabindra Raj Joshi.

The parliamentary team inspected pillar number 381, 382, 383 and 384 of Martihawa and the encroachment was found in Das Gaja area from both Nepali and Indian sides, said team coordinator Joshi.

He added it was found during the inspection that the Indian side was attempting to capture land in Chhitkaiya of Bara district.

Another local newspaper The Kathmandu Post on Thursday also reported, "it was found that in Chhitkaiya, where Pasaha River used to separate Nepal and India, the Indian side had unilaterally established a pillar (No. 342/11) that falls about a km inside Nepali territory, thus encroaching about 14 hectares of land."

The inspection was made on the basis of information about the encroachment of Nepali territory by Indian side and comprehensive study will be undertaken about the Southern border in the days to come, said committee chairperson Padam Lal Biswokarma.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/200905/21/content_11412438.htm

It seems like,here, some Bangladesh people are too much worried about it.

 

[hack]

Ya..I guess it is jealousy...India has an open border with Nepal whose citizens have in India every right as Indian citizens except the right to vote.And there are literally millions of Nepalese living and working in India and a large no of them serve in the Indian military. The link between the 2 countries are extremely deep both religious and cultural. On the other hand,India has a fence around BD and shoots the illegals trying to cross over.

 

[idune]

A Historical Background of Indian Aggression in Nepal

Nepal is sandwiched between two emerging superpowers India and China. The specific geopolitical character of Nepal and age old social, religious and cultural relation, the open border, passage to the sea through India only and the special treaty of security could not let Nepal escape from the dominance of India in political and economic front. Hence, during the past years from 1950, Nepal’s political issues never drew the attention of international community other than India. Even our northern neighbour China did not bother to give its attention in Nepal’s political development in the period. India enjoyed the sole monopoly in engaging itself in every political development of Nepal. Whenever India felt that Nepal is trying to escape from its security umbrella, it punished Nepal by imposing economic blockade and other sort of restrictions on it. The glaring example of which is the Indian economic blockade of 1989 when Nepal bought some arms from China without consulting India.

Nepal and India are very close neighbours having unique ties governed by religious, cultural and economic inter dependence as well as open border stretched to 1,751 KMs. The issue of open border is as old as the historical relation of these two countries. Although no formal agreements before 1950 maintained that the border between the two countries should remain open, both countries never introduced any provision of travel permits for the people of either country moving across the border.

The open border is always operating at the pleasure of Indian interest. India has time and again used the open border issue to threaten Nepal whenever it feels that Nepal is not responding to its interest. There are incidents of major transit points closed for long duration by India without consulting Nepal as a punishment for dealing with other countries without India’s prior knowledge and consent. However, after the birth of Maoist insurgency in Nepal, and especially in the past few years, India is also feeling the heat of negative implication of the left-wing and anti-Indian coordination in both countries that is linked to its internal security concern. So, it is the time for not only Nepal, but also India to rethink its strategic policy about the open border in the changing context of regional security as well as cross border undesirable activities.

Being a small country, Nepal is suffering more from India in the negative consequences of the unregulated movement of population across the open border. In reality, Nepal has become very poor victim of the negative implication of the open border between the two countries. It is impossible for the security forces of Nepal to guard every inch of the 1,751 KMs long border to control illegal activities. There are severe social, political as well as economic implications of the unregulated transaction of illegal activities across the border. Such incidents can’t be regulated unless India shows a strong commitment to help Nepal. There is a need of India’s direct involvement in regulating such incidents.

Based on the 1950 treaty and letters of exchange, no country is in a position to unilaterally introduce such travel provisions restricting free movement of people across the border. The issue of regulation was never discussed seriously in the past as neither of the governments felt necessary for the Treaty of Peace and Friendship 1950. Political leaders were enjoying the benefit of uninterrupted movement of Nepalese citizen to India for employment and other opportunities whereas India was also enjoying the easy flow of Indian goods and labourers into Nepalese markets. However, the open border and subsequent free movement of people across the border has brought various social, economic and political problems in recent times.
The Maoists also demanded through their Forty Point Demands presented to the then Deuba Government in February 1996, before the peoples war. The demand For the provision of the control of entire Nepal India open border, ban of cars with Indian number plates to ply through the Nepalese roads, closure of the Gorkha Recruitment Centre, making the provision of work permits for the foreigners in Nepal and end of the precedence of foreign technicians over Nepalese technicians at the local jobs and ban of Hindi video cinema, films, videocassettes, magazines, and all other vulgar materials coming from the Indian markets through the unregulated open border (CPN-M 2001) are now feeling more valuable and necessory.
India is always interested to Nepal’s rich water resources with estimated capacity of 83,000 MWs of power generation, is well known in South Asia. Water is one of the major natural resources that could be utilised for the nation’s economic development. In theory, water and water-generated energy commodities could be exported to the huge Indian market in the south. However, there is no single water resource as a joint undertaking that can be claimed as a success story in the past 50 years of water resources development project in Nepal (Chintan 2001). India’s bargaining on water resources sharing with Nepal and its desire for fishing in the troubled water of Nepalese politics is also influenced by its ever increasing demand of water for its large population.
It is obvious that India has never considered Nepal as an equal partner in sharing the huge surplus water resources in Nepal that can be of immense help in fulfilling the unmet demand among huge and starving Indian population. Other experts view that India has an attitude of exploiting the rich resource base of Nepal without returning equal benefit to Nepal. The water dispute between these two countries started as early as 1950s when the Koshi and Gandaki Hydropower projects were started. The treaties on water resources between Nepal and India have always been coloured with political opposition. The treaties caused serious uproar among the Nepalese political circle. Prime Minister B P Koirala was blamed for selling those rivers to India and the issue would be raised in every election in democratic Nepal even after four decades.

Then another most controversial Integrated Treaty on the Development of the Mahakali River (ITDMR) held in 1996 during the time of Nepali Congress Government, which brought economic, social and political consequences in all sectors of society in Nepal. This treaty became major issue of political battle among the ruling and opposition parties in the streets as well as in the parliament. The opposition communist parties organised nationwide protest blaming Nepali Congress once again selling Mahakali River to India.
Those opposing the Mahakali agreement with India argued that the agreement should be ratified by the parliament riding on the article 126 of the 1990 Constitution which stipulates that any agreement
on sharing of country’s natural resources needs ratification of the parliament by two-third majority. If such agreement causes long term impact to the nation, it has to be ratified by a two-third majority of joint seating of both the houses of parliament (Constitution of Nepal 1990). The government claimed that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was an understanding between the countries and did not require ratification. The opposition parties and civil society groups dragged the government to the Supreme Court. The apex court ruled that the MoU on Mahakali River was, indeed, an agreement and not merely an understanding.
The four decade long experience of sharing water resources with India shows that Nepal has been a great looser even in terms of narrow economic benefit through irrigation, flood control, electricity, not to mention the disastrous social and environmental cost (Chintan 2001). The discussion on water resources sharing issues has been dominated by political emotions rather than practical research and study (Ajay Dixit 2004). Every water resources development projects involving India raises the eyebrow of Nepalese opposition political parties (including CPN-M) and is viewed as an attempt to surrender.

There is a strong argument on India’s opportunist intention of exploiting Nepal’s political crisis situation and weak/illegitimate/unaccountable government to sign major water resource treaties to its benefit. Various natural resources and foreign experts have raised their voices in these issues time and again with citing the timing of the signing of those treaties.

A Historical Background of Indian Aggression in Nepal ?????

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Solution would be International Observers. There would be a rotation of peace-keepers/observers who go around with cameras to interview & record evidence. Also an international task force would replant the 'missing' pillars to their rightful place (based on GPS coordinates). Thus, if anything happens there would be video/photographic evidence. Since it is an international group, if anything "happens" to them -- this would go plaster all over the world. For example, even if one observer goes 'missing' an international ARMED FORCES would take-over..... now nobody wants!

 

[hack]

Solution would be International Observers. There would be a rotation of peace-keepers/observers who go around with cameras to interview & record evidence. Also an international task force would replant the 'missing' pillars to their rightful place (based on GPS coordinates). Thus, if anything happens there would be video/photographic evidence. Since it is an international group, if anything "happens" to them -- this would go plaster all over the world. For example, even if one observer goes 'missing' an international ARMED FORCES would take-over..... now nobody wants!

There will be no international peacekeeper on the Nepal border..don't keep dreaming.India does not even allow peacekeepers in Kashmir.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Solution would be International Observers. There would be a rotation of peace-keepers/observers who go around with cameras to interview & record evidence. Also an international task force would replant the 'missing' pillars to their rightful place (based on GPS coordinates). Thus, if anything happens there would be video/photographic evidence. Since it is an international group, if anything "happens" to them -- this would go plaster all over the world. For example, even if one observer goes 'missing' an international ARMED FORCES would take-over..... now nobody wants!

International Observers will be stationed on the Nepali side.

 

[hack]

International Observers will be stationed on the Nepali side.

It won't happen...on Nepali side or Indian side.

I think peacekeepers should be put in place at Tibet.

The great Maoist leader tried to play a game with India and he found himself out of office in a second.No one has grater influence in Nepal than India and it will remain that way.There are historic religious reasons for that and that will not change.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

It won't happen...on Nepali side or Indian side.

I think peacekeepers should be put in place at Tibet.

The great Maoist leader tried to play a game with India and he found himself out of office in a second.No one has grater influence in Nepal than India and it will remain that way.There are historic religious reasons for that and that will not change.

Not quite my friend, the Nepali monarch was overthrown - it is the people & guerillas/militias that weld the most power in Nepal. And as time passes Nepalis are becoming more self-confident and capable of making their own decisions. But most importantly, the weak monsoon has left India with record droughts that poses more pressing issues for Delhi.

Either way, even having 'unofficial' foreign observers in Nepal is more than effective enough. Delhi wants to "integrate" Nepal as quick as possible, will another 'Sikkim' work???

 

[hack]

Not quite my friend, the Nepali monarch was overthrown - it is the people & guerillas/militias that weld the most power in Nepal. And as time passes Nepalis are becoming more self-confident and capable of making their own decisions. But most importantly, the weak monsoon has left India with record droughts that poses more pressing issues for Delhi.

Either way, even having 'unofficial' foreign observers in Nepal is more than effective enough. Delhi wants to "integrate" Nepal as quick as possible, will another 'Sikkim' work???

The Monarch wrote his own death knell when he thought he could play China against India in dealing with his Maoist problem.Big mistake. The moron Prachada thought that because the Monarch was kicked out he could spite India.Before he spelt Prachada he landed on his behind right outside.The biggest power in Nepal is not Maoist or guerrillas but India supported by the Nepali army all of whose top officers have extensive relations with the Indian armed forces.

India does not desire to integrate Nepal into India.But India certainly wants Chinese out of there and won't allow a People's Republic Of Nepal to be formed.Take it as interference but it is what it is.

Drought or no drought the economy is growing at a healthy rate this year and is expected to rebound really strong next year.

 

[idune]

The master manipulator
PKD has united his flock by playing up Indian meddling


C.K Lal

Subtleties being the hallmark of diplomacy, most envoys avoid being dragged into controversies. But pro-consuls have different priorities. They have to kick sufficient dust and generate enough heat to keep the attention of home countries on their assigned territories.

The position of the Indian ambassador in Nepal is part diplomatic, part political, which means that he (it has always been a he) has to be discreet and flamboyant at the same time.

Reticence of South Block and resentment in Singha Darbar notwithstanding, Indian interference in the internal affairs of Nepal is a reality. But the current Indian envoy has broken all past records in commuting between Lainchaur and Baluwatar. With the result that a Nepali prime minister has cited foreign intervention as one of the main reasons for his resignation.

The Indian propaganda machinery has since marshaled its considerable resources to counter Caretaker Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's allegations that can neither be confirmed nor denied. Ironically, Dahal's accusations carry considerable weight in Nepal precisely because he is believed to have been closer to the South Block than any other previous prime minister.

The meddling has been so blatant in the past few months that Indian damage control measures don't seem to be working. They must be quite desperate over there to think that they can micromanage power-starved Kathmandu's affairs from their air-conditioned Lutyens bungalows in New Delhi. In an attempt to shore up the acceptability of communist Madhab Kumar Nepal in capitalist New Delhi, a phoney story was put out that the forefathers of the leftist leader from Rautahat actually came from somewhere in Bihar.

The second piece of speculation proved to be even more ephemeral. When the Indian media speculated that Dahal might have been prompted by the Chinese to dismiss CoAS Rookmangud Katawal, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu immediately issued a terse statement from Beijing: "The Chinese government always adheres to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries." Translation: Others too will do well to emulate Beijing's policy towards Kathmandu.

Apparently whoever forms the next government in Singha Darbar will be under pressure to prove that it's not beholden to foreign benefactors. It's difficult to imagine a more spectacular failure of Indian foreign policy in Nepal. The Maoists have reinvented the theory of Panchayat pedagogues that patriotism in Nepal begins and ends with anti-Indian sloganeering in the streets. New Delhi's material and intellectual investment in the grooming of Maoists seems now to have evaporated.

In their eagerness to oust the monarchy and teach mainstream parties a lesson in 'pragmatic' foreign policy, some Indian theorists went overboard with their open support for leftist insurgents. They probably believed the Maoist leadership would remain beholden and give India more play in Kathmandu than democratic politicians. This assumption was fundamentally flawed: just as it's difficult for an anti-Indian political force to survive for long in Singha Darbar, no Nepali politician can survive without at least keeping up the appearance of being against Indian hegemony.

So far, the Maoist supremo has played his cards well. Some may find the Shaktikhor video damning for the Maoists, but its dissemination has helped raise Dahal's reputation to the level of master manipulator in the eyes
of his flock.

Dahal's apparent helplessness in the face of the combined efforts of "national and foreign elements" to force Maoists out of peaceful politics too appears to be having desired effects. His fractious rank and file have suddenly found a cause to rally behind their besieged leader.

The propaganda mileage Maoists can draw against the parliamentary system if a person roundly defeated from two constituencies becomes the premier with the support of their 'class enemies' might have prompted Dahal to play victim. "Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective," says Sun Tzu in The Art of War. The game might ultimately go in the favour of Indian strategists. In propaganda wars, fortune favours the one with the bigger fortune. But for now Dahal clearly has an edge over his former handlers in the Indian capital.

The master manipulator - Nepali Times

 

[arihant]

@ idune. I don't think you are bangladeshi first, it looks you are anti-Indian first. I checked your profile and post and almost 95% include your hate against India.

 

[pmukherjee]

The master manipulator
PKD has united his flock by playing up Indian meddling

ROBIN SAYAMI

Subtleties being the hallmark of diplomacy, most envoys avoid being ..............

At least get you facts correct buddy. This article was written by CK Lal
and not Robin Sayami. Robin Sayami is a cartoonist and a good one at that. While CK Lal is a and a hot one at that.

Just read what one reader from Nepal has to say about CK Lal:-

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"Friday, February 16, 2007
the tragedy of C.K Lal
I used to admire C.K Lal’s writing. He has been writing weekly columns for the Nepali Times as far back as I remember. I used to find his columns sharp and lucid, and often full of unexpected insights. When I was in Kathmandu during the period immediately following the royal takeover in 2005, in that period of widespread uncertainty and anxiety, I eagerly awaited his weekly columns. Not only because they were insightful, but because they reflected my own mood at that time of cynicism and melancholy.

But lately I’ve begun to find him tiresome. His weekly writings on Nepali politics don’t irk me as much as his pompous monthly pronouncements about the South Asian region in Himal Southasian. The cynicism and anger, with which I identified with in 2005, now annoy me to no end. It has become clear that cynicism and bitterness is Lal’s response to everything, it informs and infects his entire worldview.

Lal’s ideological moorings veer towards that of the old Indian left. He is not explicitly a Marxist or a Gandhian-activist, but, amid the stale whiffs of the old socialist-bureaucratic ideology of the Indian state that his writings emit, are traces of both those strands of leftist Indian thought. All this is couched in heavy-handed metaphor and hyperbole, which Lal no doubt considers poetic.

Perhaps he thinks his lack of analytical and factual rigour will be camouflaged by his embarrassingly purple prose. His essays are so pompous and overstated that the image one derives of the writer is of an intolerant codger who will brook no argument. He not so much argues a point of view as tries to drown out all opposing voices. Reading him is like listening to a rant by someone who wants to coerce you into accepting his point of view.................."
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idune, Failed Pseudo communists like CK Lal are a dime a dozen.

You have just managed to exhibit your profound ignorance of all the issues you are supposed to be championing. The only sense that comes through in your unending endeauvours is a rabid anti-Indianism. Capish????

Here is the original articlehttp://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2009/05/15/StateOfTheState/15944