Our web admin, San is still silent though Mahara had already dhwang fukeko ki it was hoax created by Nepali Govt.. I still believe, the maoists using such tricks to speed up the govt. to announce cease fire. Do you remember the fake announcements (so called fakes: I call them test/ rehearsal announcements) just before the previous (about 2 years ago) cease fire. There were also a lot of rehearsals and final announcement came around the end of Tihar when Police IGP Mr. Shrestha(?) was killed. In politics, in US, in Nepal, in Japan and elsewhere including in Maoists world too, when they don't know the public mood, and need to test the public mood they ask their lower level cadres/leaders to create hoax i.e. send a test message via public media and within a day the higher level leaders denounce and blame it for their opponents "a formula, I have been watching for long". Because of such hoax, if the public mood is on their side, then they will say that it was their genuine announcments or leak of information, otherwise, whole blame goes opponents. Such game is not a new, its understandable when you are in poor conditions. I don't think that without having good link with Maoists, the person who disseminated all these information, could have been possible. Its certainly not by Mahara, but, by lower level cadres with slight hints from higher level leaders. I am not surprised and in a few days to few weeks Maoists will finally announce the final announcements, not the rehearsals. GP