Civil war to escalate. - http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=70661 The latest report of the International Crisis Group(ICG) has said that Nepal's King Gyanendra takeover of power will only worsen the situation ....... "King Gyanendra justified his coup on the need to beat back the Maoists, but it will have exactly the opposite effect" - http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=70648 India can apply moral pressure and link its stand on normalising its relations with Nepal, including collaboration on the military front and economic assistance to restore status-quo ante before February 1 when King Gyanendra seized power, imposed emergency and clamped press censorship, former Foreign Minister Ram Sharan Mahat told PTI in an interview. - http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1237418,001300980000.htm Nepal's coup to intensify civil war: Think tank ..... the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) projected an intensification of the "civil war" and strengthening of Maoist insurgency .... the only way to achieve peace was "through effective military action combined with a political strategy that undercuts Maoist positions. Neither is possible without a broad-based democratic government." - http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&id=70647 Nepal's Supreme Court has asked the Government to produce former Bar Association chief before it in connection with the habeas corpus petition against his detention. - http://mnn.gospelcom.net/article/6992 by undermining democracy in the process, he may have strengthened the rebels' position. The Maoists now have less incentive to negotiate than ever....... - http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1410419,00.html police moved swiftly to smother protests in the capital and blocked the US ambassador from visiting senior political leaders under house arrest. .............Political parties say more than 1,000 people have been arrested under laws allowing detention without trial for three months. .... - http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e6629570-7bd2-11d9-9af4-00000e2511c8.html What could the political parties do? Could they gather around a Common Minimum Program of a Democratic Republic? Would that be like an umbrella? So far they have not budged. The Congress, UML, they are still for Constitutional Monarchy. If the parties do not make themselves clearer, how will they approach the people?