| I think we all saw this coming. |
 KATHMANDU — Nepal's King Gyanendra has turned back the clock nearly half a century by picking two staunch royalists who served his father as his top aides in running the Himalayan kingdom, analysts said. Analysts say the appointments of the two members of the "old royal guard" may signal that Gyanendra wants to institute the same panchyat or partyless system of rule which his late father, King Mahendra, implemented in 1960. "The country seems to be reverting to the old partyless regime," said political scientist Devendra Parajuli who teaches at Lalitpur Campus college on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Two weeks ago Gyanendra dismissed the government and made himself chairman of a 10-man council of ministers packed with royalists. |