Gokul ji, Acoording to the Constitution of Nepal, the National Defense Council which consists of the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the Commander in Chief, controls the army. The commander in Chief is chosen by the Prime Minister. Clearly the army should be answerable to the Prime minister. The loyalty of the army to the King is extra-constitutiona thingl. Perhaps para-constitutional is a better word to describe it because it has been an unexplainable para-normal thing to many political pundits of Nepal. They and even our political parties which are demanding that the army should not be controlled by the King do not know how exactly are they going to change that by re-writing the constitution while retaining the throne. ************************* Iso Freak, Once we agree that the Maoists should be disarmed and the King defanged/dethroned, it is not a difficult thing to carry out. Simply they should be done simultaneously. The defanging/dethroning of the King should be made contingent on the disarming of the Maoists. That's all. It is just a simple question of technicalities. The idea of keeping the King as it is or, worse, empowering him is not going to help anything. ************************** Paramendra, Nice numbers ? So you were not aware of this before ? No wonder you thought republicanism is a distant posiibility.