Amid the deepening political crisis, leaders of the major parties in Nepal have failed to meet a key deadline for a new Constitution at the end of this month.<br/> <br/>Leaders of the three major political parties the CPN-Maoist, the Nepali Congress and the prime minister's Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) met in Kathmandu but failed to reach an agreement to end the standoff that threatens the country's peace process that brought a decade- long civil war to an end in 2006.<br/> <br/>Nepalese political leaders are struggling to meet a May 28 deadline to finish the drafting of a new constitution as stipulated by the peace process that made the Maoists give up arms and join mainstream politics.<br/> <br/>Without a new Constitution or an extension of that deadline, analysts fear chaos as the Maoists have demanded the resignation of Nepal before discussing the peace process, the constitution and the formation of a new Government.<br/>