NEPSE STABLE Kathmandu, 20 May: Nepse was stable Monday Monday on the second day of five-day weekly trading. Stock lost 0.35 points when trading ended at 497.46 points. Altogether 244,254 shares were traded for Rs.65.231 million in 1145 transactions. Nnnn ACTOR ARJUN KARKI ATOP EVEREST Kathmandu, 20 May: Chinese clmber Hsiao Shishlee, 58, died during descent after climbing the 8848 meters high Mount Everest Sunday. Second group of five personnel from Nepal Army and six from climbed the peak Monday taking advantage of a break in the weather. RSS adds from Solokhumbu: Nepali film actor Arjun Karki, and national marathon runner Sanjya Pandey have successfully climbed the world's highest peak Mt. Everest. They stepped on the top of the peak at 7:30 this [Monday] morning, said their team's liaison officer Ongchhu Sherpa. They have already returned to the camp- 4 now. Actor Karki was dragged into controversy for climbing the peak on permission for expedition's high altitude worker. Altogether 41 people including 14 foreigners, 25 Nepali Sherpas and one player climbed Mt. Everest from the group coordinated by Seven Summits. nnnn LEGAL HURDLES DELAYING POLL DATE ANNOUNCEMENT SAYS UML’S OLI Kathmandu, 20 May: Leader of the CPN-UML, KP Oli, has said that declaring the date for the election to the Constituent Assembly (CA) is delayed as there are some legal obstacles for the second CA election, RSS writes from Panchthar.. Talking to media persons at Phidim today, Oli expressed the view that the government should declare the date only after formulating all laws needed to hold election. Stating that there was no alternative to election to uplift the country from political transition and to draft people-oriented democratic constitution, he suggested all agitating parties including the CPN-Maoist to be responsible by participating in the CA election. Oli blamed that the previous CA was dissolved without promulgating the new constitution as people, who are anarchist, won the election through rigging. He expressed the view that all democratic powers should be united in the next CA election to rein in those backing authoritarianism. Nnnn MUSHARRAF GETS BAIL Kathmandu, 20 May: A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination, Reuters reports from Islamabad.. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election, but he was disqualified from standing because of pending court cases. The election was won by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister Musharraf ousted in his coup 14 years ago. Musharraf became the first former army chief to be arrested, breaking an unwritten rule that the top ranks of the military are untouchable, even after they have retired. But the current army chief has suggested the military is unhappy with how authorities have treated Musharraf. On April 20, a court remanded the former president in custody for two weeks as judges pushed ahead with plans to put Musharraf on trial for a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in office. On April 30, an anti-terrorism court put Musharraf on 14-day judicial remand for charges of failing to provide adequate security for Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. The acceptance of the former commando's bail application could see him leave the country despite the fact that the Supreme Court has directed that he should stay put. Many observers believe a face-saving reason for his departure, perhaps on grounds of ill health, will be found. nnnn