Kathmandu, Feb. 21 -- The transitional justice process remains stalled as the government delays constitution of the recommendation committee to select office bearers in the two transitional justice bodies.

There has been no serious effort to form another panel after the one led by Om Prakash Mishra, former chief justice, failed to recommend chairpersons and members for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons. Formed on October 18, the five-member panel exhausted its two-month-long tenure without accomplishing its job.

Two months later, no progress has been made in constituting another committee. "I have repeatedly drawn the attention of the prime minister, Nepali Congre...