A central leader of the ruling party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), said the party did not intend to immediately terminate Gurkha recruitment, state-run newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
"We don't have any plan to end Gurkha recruitment as our country lacks a strong ground to absorb unemployed youth, and until we have such an environment in the country we won't implement our agenda of ending the recruitment," Barsha Man Pun, known as "Ananta", a central CPN-M leader and the party's former armed force commander said on Tuesday.
He was speaking at a program organized by "Association of Ex-army men Nepal" at the Reporter's Club, in capital Kathmandu.
The CPN-M has been saying that it will ban recruitment of Nepalese youths in the foreign armies.
"The government should work towards increasing employment opportunities for the youths so that they do not get attracted to recruitment in the foreign armies," he suggested.
He, however, noted that the practice of recruiting Nepalese youths in the military of the other countries was an insult to Nepal's self-respect. "It is a matter of national self-respect and sovereignty," he said.
Nepalese youths, especially for those from ethnic groups of Rai, Linbu, Gurung and Magar, are recruited in the British and Indian armies.
He clarified that his party chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" would not raise the issue of terminating Gurkha recruitment during his visit to India next week.
Source:Xinhua
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