UPDATE NC CONSIDERING NEW GENERAL CONVENTION DATE Kathmandu, 30 Aug. Main opposition NC is considering a new convention date, Spokesman Dilendra Prasad Badu said after the party central committee meet began Thursday. Bimalendra Nidhi close to the Sher Bahadur Deuba camp presented a proposal at the committee, Badu said. A four-day convention was scheduled to be held in Janakpur from 10 October before the beginning of the festive season. A rescheduling was sought because of time constraint. Responsibility has been entrusted to office bearer to reschedule the convention, Badu said. nnnns FAMILIES OFOF DISAPPEARED COMPLAIN NO JUSTICE RECEIVED Kathmandu, 30 Aug.: Families of the disappeared people during the conflict said unequivocally 'Show our people forcefully disappeared during the armed conflict' after they could not get justice even after six years of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord, RSS reports. The Disappeared Family National Network and Advocacy Group for Transitional Justice among other groups organized a morning rally including pressure exerting programmes on the occasion of the 29th International Day of the Disappeared. Chairman of the Network Ram Kumar Bhandari expressed concern as the disappeared people were not made public and said the victim families have organized such protests nationwide. He said the ordinances prepared to bring with an intention to give amnesty to the guilty of various crimes during the conflict without consultation with the concerned bodies, past agreement and ignoring the spirit of the Supreme Court verdict would create the feeling of revenge rather than reconciliation. Reshma Shakya of Advocacy Group expressed concern over the ordinance submitted to President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav claiming the government has prepared the ordinance with an intention to give amnesty to any person involved in serious crime. As many as 1,350 people were forcefully disappeared and around 1,700 citizens were killed, and thousands of people were displaced during the insurgency. RSS Nnnn MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL SAYS DIALOGUE BETWEEN PARTIES SHOULD SEEK CONSENSUS BETWEEN PARTIES Kathmandu, 30 Aug.: Senior leader of CPN (UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that the ongoing parleys underway among the political parties should be concentrated on forging consensus to give a final touch to the new Constitution, RSS reports. Speaking at a programme organized by the Nepal Muslim Ettehad Organization on the occasion of the Id al-Fitr, the former prime minister said that the present discussions should focus on giving completion to the new constitution not the revival of the dissolved constituent assembly or going for the fresh elections. Leader Nepal said, "New constitution should ensure religious independence, secularism and equal rights to all communities and classes." On a separate context, leader Nepal expressed solidarity to the agitation of Pokhara folk to their demand for construction of the regional level international airport in Pokhara. The regional level airport should be constructed in Pokhara soon, the UML leader added. Chairman of Organization Ahammad Alam, rights activist Shovakar Budhathoki, Chairman of Hindu Federation Nepal Nnnn AUSTRALIA SUFFERS WORST COMBAT LOSS AFTER VIETMAM WAR Kathmandu, 30 Aug.: Australia suffered its worst combat losses since the Vietnam War when five troops were killed in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, prompting Prime Minister Julia Gillard to return home early from a regional Pacific leaders' conference, Reuter reports from .Kabul/ Canberra. Officials from the Australian Defence Force and the NATO-led coalition said three Australians had been killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday by an Afghan wearing a soldier's uniform, bringing to 45 the number of NATO-led coalition troops killed in rogue shootings this year. Australian officials later announced another two troops had died in a helicopter crash in the south on Thursday. "This is news so truly shocking that it's going to feel for many Australians like a physical blow," an emotional Gillard told reporters in the Cook Islands, where she was attending a forum of Pacific islands leaders. Gillard said she would cut short her visit and return to Australia later on Thursday for briefings on the deaths. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to lead a U.S. government team to the 16-member forum from Friday. The alarming rise in the number of rogue shootings and other attacks has increased pressure on coalition members to fast-track withdrawal plans. Under the current timetable, most foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, handing security responsibility to their Afghan counterparts. Opinion polls in Australia say Australians overwhelmingly want their troops out of Afghanistan, although Gillard ruled out any early exit. "We are there for a purpose and we will see that purpose through," Gillard said. Australia's neighbor New Zealand said last week it would accelerate the withdrawal of its troops after three more were killed by a roadside bomb. Australian and Afghan forces are hunting for a man in an Afghan army uniform who shot and killed the three Australian soldiers at a patrol base in Uruzgan province, where around 1,500 Australian troops are based. Fifteen coalition troops have been killed in similar incidents this month alone. Australian Defence Force Air Marshal Mark Binskin told reporters in Canberra the gunman used an automatic weapon at close range. Binskin said the other two Australians, both special forces soldiers, were killed when their helicopter was attempting to land during an operation in neighboring Helmand province. He said there was no sign the accident was caused by enemy action but refused to give further details. The deaths marked Australia's worst day in the war in Afghanistan, which it joined in late 2001. A total of 38 Australian troops have been killed there since the war began. NATO-led forces have increased security to try to counter the increase in insider shootings, including requiring soldiers to carry loaded weapons at all times on bases. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey visited Kabul last week to discuss the worrying increase in rogue shootings. U.S. President Barack Obama also expressed his "deep concern" over the insider attacks. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for many of the incidents as evidence of their ability to infiltrate Afghan security forces, raising worrying questions about the readiness of Afghan forces to take over. Afghanistan's government said last week it would re-examine the files of 350,000 soldiers and police to help curb rogue shootings of NATO personnel. (Reporting by Rob Taylor and Amie Ferris-Rotman in KABUL and James Grubel in CANBERRA; Editing by Paul Tait and Michael Perry) nnnn