Government endorsed the report submitted by a Political Dialogue Committee headed by lawmaker Som Prasad Pandey, reports Republica on July 26. Implementation of the report will pave the way for dealing with the outlawed Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist-Chand) as a “political” entity and holding negotiations to address its demands. “The Biblab group, which is involved in semi-underground activities, has owned up to incidents of general shutdown, strikes and vandalism. Security agencies have concluded that the group was behind the bomb blasts that occurred during the three tiers of elections. But since the group has also advanced a political agenda and the background of the individual leading it is also political, it is appropriate to hold negotiations with the group,” the report has stated.