It is praiseworthy that various political leaders in the Legislature-Parliament have suggested to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli that he should be aware of national concern and not sign any controversial treaties or deals with the southern neighbour that hampers national sovereignty and nationality during his first historic visit to India (“Don’t sign anti-national deals, PM told” (THT, Feb.13, Page 2). Moreover, he ought to build confidence and courage to ask Indian PM Narendra Modi not to interfere and encroach upon Nepal’s internal matters. Besides, he himself has already said that he will take the necessary initiatives in the course of strengthening the relationships between the two neighbours via various peace agreements and talks. Such assertions of his need to come into action during his six-day visit to India. The absence of the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front in the crucial meetings organised by Oli before his tour to India vividly shows that so-called responsible Madhes-based leaders have no more trust left on PM Oli. How mortifying for entire Nepali people to know about this! To sum up, the resilient Nepalis are anticipating that Oli will never take steps that would hurt their sentiments. Sanjog Karki, Palpa Poor show The performance of the Nepali squad in the South Asian Games being held in India is indeed dismal. However, the players are not to blame because they lacked preparations. We had expected to see them grab medals. But this was not to be. The sports authorities should take the blame for this plight. Some players have shown much potential and it is expected that they will be able to do better in the future if they receive the needed training and practice. Manish Dahal, via e-mail Huge potential “In Nepal you can find players out of village but you cannot find a village out of football”. Nepal now just within a span of a month is under glory. The unheard-of or better say unrecognized striker Nawayug Shrestha is in his epic form who within a span of less than 25 days has struck three hat tricks. I am not alone when I say his lethal attacking is comparable with Suarez of Barcelona. We have undoubtedly a huge untapped potential that is latent due to lack of exposure and the ineptness of ANFA back home. ANFA necessarily needs to revamp its programs, bring both financial and psychological investment towards the real development of football in each of the 75 districts of the country to diversify and hone the national prodigies, invite more scouts to observe our players and avoid nepotism and favoritism in the selection of players, accelerate the pace with grassroots development programs with AFC and FIFA and, most importantly, leave no stone unturned to root out the belief that football does not have a future as a profession in Nepal. Jay Bahadur Shah, Jajarkot