PLA allots integration quota to 7 divisions

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The General Staff meeting of People´s Liberation Army (PLA) has finalized the quotas for all its seven divisions on the number of combatants opting for integration and has directed all divisional headquarters to initiate selection procedures accordingly.

Thapa asks PLA to defy gag order

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 6: Taking strong exception to the recent whip issued by the People´s Liberation Army (PLA), UCPN (Maoist) General Secretary and in-charge of the party´s military commission Ram Bahadur Thapa has asked PLA members not to follow the whip that bars the latter from making public statements against integration and rehabilitation modality.

Thapa expressed his objection with some central committee members of the party from the far-western region who met Thapa on Saturday.

4th Division commanders oppose education provision

KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Nov 6: Commanders of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) Fourth Division on Saturday seriously objected to the provision in the integration deal to take into account the educational level that combatants had at the time of joining the insurgency -- not the current one.

Education, age put PLA top brass off integration

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 5: As the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) braces for integration of its combatants into the national army, education level, age and service period in the PLA seem to discourage many top commanders and vice commanders from opting for the integration.

Most of the PLA top commanders- let alone other combatants- do not have the required educational level to qualify for higher posts in the Nepal Army(NA).

PLA division commanders to opt out of integration

KIRAN PUN
KATHMANDU, Nov 3: Top echelons of the Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) will not join the Nepal Army (NA), but are likely to get some ´political appointments´ instead.

Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal told PLA division commanders during a meeting at his residence Thursday morning that PLA commanders including division commanders and above should opt out of integration.

UCPN (Maoist) decides to proceed with peace deal

POST B BASNET/KIRAN PUN KATHMANDU, Oct 30: In a UCPN (Maoist) meeting "boycotted" by the party´s radical faction, the party establishment has decided to seal a deal on the protracted peace process in the next couple of days. "There were only a few contentious issues including the number of the combatants to be integrated and rehabilitation packages for the rest. We agreed to strike a deal within the next couple of days," Maoist spokesman Dinanath Sharma told Republica after the "informal meeting" of the party standing committee.

The seven point agreement

	KATHMANDU, Nov 2: National consensus is a must to take the peace process to a logical end and complete the task of writing the new constitution. So, as per the Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2006 and various other understanding between the political parties at different times, the following understanding has been reached to compete the remaining task of constitution writing and move forward as per the politics of national consensus.