salamji, I am indeed a neutral citizen and think impartially. Not like you-explicitly supporting one side and criticizing the other. If you contemplate on what I say you must realize that the need of the hour is to work together not individually. Gyanendra cannot confront the Maoists single handedly. He shouldn't be upbeat with the relative calm in Kathmandu now. This is the silence before the hurricane. A big scale attack from the maoists is yet to come. It will surely come and whether the new combination of King and army can handle it differently is a matter of wait and see. I don't think this will be an easy task. He must at least garner military support from India and the west to confront the maoist in the longer term. And US and India are not going to help him unless he softens the restrictions on civil liberties, allows parties faithful to multiparty and constitutional monarchy system to engage in politics and free the ban on media. And again Gyanendra has the power to punish the corrupts even if political activities are allowed in the country. If Gyanendra is determined to crush the Maoists, other political parties must play a role favourable to the King and the west and India must continue their assistance to Nepal. Apart from Kathmandu, maoists only consistently show their presence in the villages. Political parties can show their presence if the King and the army are positive. And thats the best way to regain government control over villages in Nepal.For this purpose also, Gyanendra should not ignore parties in this way. There is no possibilities what so ever that China will supply arms for free to crush the Maoists who are in fact the followers of Mao Zedong -their national hero. Communists support communists in the end. North Korea is surviving because China is backing her from behind. Royalist must know this fact. You know why the west and India have started withdrawing their support to the King? Because Gyanendra have shown signs of tilting towards China. For economic and friendly reasons, China may be an ideal choice for most of the Nepalese over India. But India's role is more vital in the end. SO Gyanendra must balance the foreign policy. I don't have an extremist view that Maloists problem can be solved militarily. The best option for Gyanendra is still to give the maoists a chance by accepting their call for constituent assembly. Still the majority of the Nepalese are in favour of multi party democracy and constitutional monarchy, with monarchy playing a UK type role. So Gyanendra should not fear about the outcome of the assembly election. This helps him to prevent bloodshed. But if he thinks the Maoists can be wiped out, he must get support from India and USA at the end of the day. Other wise, his single handed authoritorianism will be short lived and he will be forced to hand over the government to the same corrupted leaders soon. The best thing to avoid this is to announce the lifting of ban on press and politicians immidiately and release detained Human rights activists immidiately. US and India won't ask for the release of political leaders who are convicted of corruptions anyway. Otherwise, neither those country will resume their assistance, nor the King can defeat maoists. He will only near his downfall.