Kathmandu: After holding an anxious nation hostage for over a day, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal finally agreed Sunday to step down in exchange for the three major parties signing a deal to extend the constitutional deadline by three more months, a step that constitutional lawyers warned was illegal and would plunge the republic into further crises.
Nepal's interim constitution and parliament faced dissolution at Saturday midnight after the bickering parties failed to draft a new constitution in three years, a task started in 2008 and regarded as the foundation of the peace accord that saw the Maoist guerrillas lay down arms after a decade of insurgency.
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