PLA calls off recruitment drive

The Maoist-affiliated People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has called off its recruitment drive from Tuesday.

Nanda Kishor Pun ‘Pasang’, chief of the PLA, said the recruitment process has been called off to uphold the directives of the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) and the stay order issued by the Supreme Court (SC), in a press statement issued Tuesday.

An AISC meeting chaired by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal-who is also the coordinator of the AISC-on Sunday had directed the PLA to stop its recruitment drive with immediate effect.

The PLA suspended its recruitment drive after it received a formal letter to this effect on Tuesday.

On Sunday, hearing on a case filed by an INGO named INHURED, SC had also issued a stay order to the PLA to stop its recruitment process.

PLA had announced its recruitment process through a press release on March 2. Its commanders said the recruitment was to fill up vacancies created after UNMIN disqualified some 12000 PLA cadres in its verification process. nepalnews.com Mar 11 09

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