Better to focus EXCLUSIVELY on the STATED GOAL of defanging the Maoists as quickly as possible (assuming that's indeed trump card) and then quickly return the country to the pre-October 4 2002 era. OK, that might just be some wishful thinking. ***** But if reports of continuous and shocking human rights violations -- assuming the Pokhara Kanda is true (and it's easy to imagine more of such reports in coming days) -- by the jawaans of our armed forces keep on trickling out of Nepal, then, let's face it, things do not bode well for the King-led cabinet. Like the Maoists, you can't kill your own people and then claim some sort of legitimacy. That just won't do. At all. oohi ashu