Bar Nepalis from joining foreign armies: Left alliance

A special Left alliance task force
formed by the ruling CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre parties has
recommended barring Nepal's youths from joining foreign
The task force also suggested that the previous treaties
and agreements governing Nepali nationals' service in foreign
armies should be scrapped through diplomatic channel, the

Around 44,000 Nepali nationals are currently serving in
The work plan for achieving economic development and
prosperity states that Nepali citizens "will be barred from
UML vice-chair and coordinator of the task force Bamdev
Gautam has submitted the report to Prime Minister K P Sharma
"The (Left) alliance proposed banning Nepalis from

joining foreign armies mainly because Nepal as a member of the
non-alignment movement should not send its youths to join
foreign armies," the paper quoted a left alliance leader as
In the past too, parliamentary panels had urged the
Nepal's Supreme Court had passed an order eight years
ago, saying recruitment of Nepalese in Singapore Police Force
was illegal, but that order was not implemented, the paper
There are seven Gurkha regiments, 40 battalions in the
Indian Army with around 40,000 Gurkha soldiers, including in
Citing Indian security experts, it said that 70 per cent
In 1947, when India gained Independence, a tripartite

agreement among Nepal, India and Britain transferred four
There are 80,000 ex-Gurkhas, 17,000 Nepalis in Assam
rifles and 11,000 widows receiving welfare fund. They receive
There are around 3,600 Nepalis in British Army and around
400 Nepalis serve in Singapore Police Force. Eligible Nepalis