Kathmandu, July 16 -- In one of the first orders of business, the incoming Sher Bahadur Deuba government has extended the terms of two transitional justice commissions and their office-bearers by a year.

"The extension of the terms was necessary as the commissions haven't completed their task," Uday Sapkota, secretary at the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, told the Post. "The Cabinet made the decision for the extension of one year."

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons were formed in 2015 as mandated by the Enforced Disappearance Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Act, 2014 to look into gross human rights violations during the decade-long Maoist co...