Kathmandu, Sept. 13 -- Following pressure from different quarters, the recommendation committee formed to select officials for the transitional justice commissions has decided to step up and take the lead in the appointment process.

According to people familiar with the development, the committee, headed by former chief justice Om Prakash Mishra, will not fully endorse the list of candidates, apparently prepared at the behest of political parties, for the two transitional justice bodies.

The committee is particularly unhappy with the agreement between the parties to repeat the entire team led by Lokendra Mallick in the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons.

A meeting of the committee on Thursday zeroed in on the n...