Moreover, despite Mr Dahal's pledge, the Maoists have stopped the assembly functioning since his resignation.
Nepal's Maoists emerged as probable winners of an election to an assembly charged with drafting a constitution.
The paper, founded in 1973 by Sartre and some French Maoists, is losing readers and money in equal measure.
Prime Minister Deuba criticised the Maoists for targeting innocent civilians and also political activists for putting pressure on the government.
However, many feel that Nepal's southern neighbour now mistrusts the Maoists, and questions whether they are committed to democracy rather than armed conflict.
This year the former guerrillas have won an election, Nepal became a republic and, as of August 15th, the Maoists' leader, known as Prachanda, meaning fierce, is prime minister.
According to a 2006 peace agreement between the Maoists and their political opponents, some of the Maoists' 23, 000-odd former fighters, currently in UN-supervised camps, should be integrated into the army.
Indeed, many Nepali politicians say the agreement should be renegotiated, arguing that the Maoists have not kept their side of the bargain, for example by failing to control their thuggish youth wing.
Although there is general agreement over integration and rehabilitation, the opposition Nepali Congress Party is also insisting that the Maoists hand over their weapons as part of the deal to extend the constitutional deadline.
As one strategist for the Nepali Congress, the largest of the democratic parties, admitted, the Maoists' interests lie in further polarising Nepali politics, whereas the stated aim of the parties is to build a democratic consensus on the middle ground.
Last year the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, a state where Maoists have a huge presence, pressed India's central government for a 10% surcharge on mining profits so that impoverished rural areas could be developed and people discouraged from joining the rebels.
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