Kathmandu, Aug. 22 -- On August 12, a nine-member ad-hoc committee of the Nepal Olympic Committee surfaced. The committee's formation, with the consensus of officials from 23 sports associations, was revealed in a statement signed by Samim Miya Ansari as a member and the spokesperson. The committee had former NOC president Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan as its chair.

National Sports Council (NSC), the governing body of Nepali sports, which padlocked the NOC building on March 16 citing the newly elected NOC executive committee led by Jeevan Ram Shrestha as "illegal", had unlocked the NOC building in Satdobato on Tuesday for the ad-hoc committee.

However, it was only on Thursday that the seven other members in the ad-hoc committee, their agendas ...