{"id":26283,"date":"2020-05-29T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/not-our-job-to-make-unnecessary-political-statements-nepal-army\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:38:30","slug":"not-our-job-to-make-unnecessary-political-statements-nepal-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26283","title":{"rendered":"Not our job to make unnecessary political statements: Nepal Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>It was responding to reports that its chief had refused Oli\u2019s direct orders Indian Army chief\u2019s comments on border issue.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nepal Army on Friday said it was not its job to make \u201cunnecessary political statements\u201d or respond to the loaded queries from the media. It was responding to reports that its chief had refused the direct orders of Prime Minister KPS Oli on Indian Army chief Gen. Manoj Naravane\u2019s recent comments on border issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNepal Army does function well within the parameters of the constitution, and maintains its glorious tradition of discipline, restrain and accountability and respect towards the highest executive office in the country,\u201dit said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clarification came after it was reported that when he was asked by Mr. Oli to respond to Gen. Naravane\u2019s comments, Gen. PC Thapa had said, \u2018No thanks\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two weeks back, speaking on Nepal\u2019s objections to the new road through the Lipulekh pass upto the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to shorten travel time for Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage, Gen. Naravane said there was no \u201ccontradiction at all\u201d and Nepal may have raised the issue \u201cat the behest of someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Nepal&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwor Pokhrel said the Indian Army chief&#8217;s comments on the Kalapani dispute were \u201ccondemnable\u201d and had hurt the sentiments of the Nepali Gurkhas who have a long tradition of sacrifice for India. He also said the Nepal army would fight if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/not-our-job-to-make-unnecessary-political-statements-nepal-army\/article31703122.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was responding to reports that its chief had refused Oli\u2019s direct orders Indian Army chief\u2019s comments on border issue. The Nepal Army on Friday said it was not its job to make \u201cunnecessary political statements\u201d or respond to the loaded queries from the media. It was responding to reports that its chief had refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}