The High Level Political Mechanism decided to form a State Restructuring Commission on Wednesday, but the three different parties have not actually agreed on the objectives of the commission. Republica writes:

While the Maoists argued that the commission should only work to fine-tune the 14-province federal proposal passed by the CA Committee on State Restructuring, the ruling parties argued that the commission should be granted full rights to study and make recommendations for a scientific restructuring of the state.

Let us remind ourselves that Nepali Congress has not yet submitted a draft on state restructuring to the Constituent Assembly. NC leader Sushil Koirala even said the decision adopt a federal model had been premature. CPN-UML recently formed a task force to outline the party’s position on state restructuring because there is a disagreement within the ranks of the party.

We guess this just means this political deadlock party is likely to continue for a while.

Then there is the saga of a former high-ranking official, suspected of involvement in Jamim Shah’s murder, who has fled town after bring told by his former colleagues that they were going to arrest him. The Kathmandu Post reports:

It has been learnt that a former high-ranking police official, one of the suspects in the Jamim Shah murder case, was told to leave the Capital by senior police officers before he could be arrested.

The police in turn decided to investigate the role of former Deputy Superintendent of Police Jagadish Chand on the very day (Wednesday) he went on the run.

The police were thus unable to interrogate Chand despite their knowledge about his connection with the Indian killers as he used his political influence, a highly placed source said.

The police had been planning to interrogate Chand about his connections with notorious Indian criminal Babloo Shrivastav, the mastermind behind the murder of Shah on Feb. 7, since the last three weeks. Police investigators reached Chand’s workplace--Norvic Hospital at Thapathali, where he works as the front office manager--to bring him in but he had already escaped by then.

Investigators have found that DSP Chand along with Sub-Inspector Prakash Chhetri and Babbu, who hatched the Shah’s murder plan in Kathmandu, had called up Shrivastav several times from the Thapathali-based Greenline Restaurant.

Perhaps we are being harsh on the police before we hear their story. They say they are very close to arresting the suspects who shot at Narendar Pampati in Lazimpat on Tuesday. The president of Bharatpur College of Medical Science escaped unhurt during the incident. From The Kathmandu Post:

“We are very close to arresting the criminals,” said Senior Superintendent of Police Rana Bahadur Chand, in-charge of Metropolitan Crime Police Division. “As per the eyewitnesses’ description, the shooter and the rider were Nepalis. They might have been used by national and international criminal groups.”

Yes, when they say they are “close to arresting” they mean they have narrowed down the list of  suspects to 27 million (according to the last census's projection).