{"id":4664,"date":"2004-10-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/18\/2004-10-18-nepal-government-agrees-to-temporary-ceasefire-with-maoists-during-festival\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T12:00:00","slug":"2004-10-18-nepal-government-agrees-to-temporary-ceasefire-with-maoists-during-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/18\/2004-10-18-nepal-government-agrees-to-temporary-ceasefire-with-maoists-during-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Government Agrees to Temporary Ceasefire With Maoists During Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.teamindia.net\/index.php?action=fullnews&#038;id=30187\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, October 18, 2004: Nepal Government today announced a temporary suspension of military action against Maoists in response to the rebels&#8217; offer of a truce during Dusshera festival. &#8220;There will be no offensive from our side&#8230; If there is any sabotage against us and if anyone tries to disturb peace the government will be on high alert to maintain peace,&#8221; Nepal&#8217;s Information and Communication Minister Mohammad Mohsin told reporters. The Government did not specify the timeframe of the truce but the festival in the Kingdom will continue till mid-November. The Nepalese Government&#8217;s decision comes four days after the Maoists announced a unilateral ceasefire. The CPN-Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal popularly known as Prachanda had issued a statement on Friday saying the party would halt all military activities for nine days during the Hindu festival. &#8220;The Government takes positively the Maoists&#8217; announcement to temporarily halt military activities and asks the rebels not to avoid dialogue but to honestly come forward for dialogue to resolve the problems peacefully,&#8221; Mohsin said. PTI <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKATHMANDU, NEPAL, October 18, 2004: Nepal Government today announced a temporary suspension of military action against Maoists in response to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}