Kathmandu, Aug 31: Nepal Government has made special security arrangements for current and former politicians in the wake of the growing Maoist threat, the Home Ministry said today.
Special security arrangements have been made for some VIPs and security has been stepped up in general in view of the growing threat from the Maoists, who have unilaterally broken the ceasefire, Home Ministry spokesman Gopendra Bahadur Pandey said.
The government has constituted the Kathmandu valley security coordination committee comprising Army and police personnel to provide special security at the residences of the VIPs including ministers and heads of constitutional bodies.
According to english daily 'the Kathmandu Post' some 217 VIPs are under the hit list by the Maoists.
However, official sources have not yet specifically confirmed as to who are included the list.

A day after they unilaterally broke their ceasefire with the government, the Maoists shot two Army colonels killing one of them in Kathmandu.

They also made abortive bids on the life of former deputy home minister Devendra Raj Kandel and former premier Sher Bahadur Deuba in west Nepal last week.
Bureau Report