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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Nepal row flares after army chief sacked AFP - Monday, May 4 KATHMANDU (AFP) - - Nepal's president ordered the country's army chief to stay in his job on Monday after the Maoist government tried to sack him in a power struggle between the prime minister and the military. ADVERTISEMENT "Being the head of the state and the supreme commander of the Nepal Army I order you to continue with your duty," President Ram Baran Yadav said in a letter sent to General Rookmangud Katawal. The attempt to sack Katawal "did not meet the constitutional process," the president said in the letter, a copy of which was seen by AFP. Nepal's Maoist government on Sunday fired the country's army chief for failing to comply with orders, raising fears of a showdown between the prime minister and the military. The sacking -- three years after the end of the Himalayan nation's civil war -- is the latest episode in a worsening power struggle between the leftist former rebels and their one-time enemies in the army. Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told reporters that a cabinet meeting had removed General Rookmangud Katawal from his post "as his clarification for defying the government orders was not satisfactory." Last month, Prime Minister Prachanda had asked Katawal to explain why government orders to stop army recruitment and to fire of eight senior army generals had been ignored. The dispute between the army and the ruling Maoists centres around Maoist demands that their former rebel fighters, who are currently confined to United Nations-supervised camps, be fully integrated into the regular army. The army has refused to take in the 19,000 hardened guerrillas whom it views as politically indoctrinated. In an indication that the government intends to impose its will on the military, Mahara said Katawal had been sacked to maintain "civilian supremacy" in Nepal. But Nepalese television stations reported Katawal had refused to stand down, and a military official told AFP that army generals had met to decide their next move. The sacking provoked rival demonstrations in the capital Kathmandu, with opposition protesters and Maoist supporters rallying on the streets despite a heavy police presence. Katawal's dismissal also triggered rapid political repercussions, with the Maoists' main ally pulling out of the ruling coalition. "We have called back our ministers and withdrawn our support after the unilateral decision to sack the army chief," Amrit Bohara, senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), told AFP. "The Maoists took the step despite our disapproval. They breached the politics of consensus, and their behaviour has endangered the peace process." The opposition Nepali Congress party described the army chief's sacking as "undemocratic and autocratic" and an attempt by the Maoists to "impose dictatorial rule" on Nepal. The Maoists ended their bloody decade-long "people's war" in 2006, and won landmark elections last year before throwing out the world's last Hindu monarchy and declaring Nepal a republic. They have since been pushing to implement sweeping reforms, which include finalising the peace process by having their former rebel fighters become part of the national army. The issue is seen as key to cementing peace in Nepal in the aftermath of the civil war, during which more than 13,000 people died. The army, a bastion of Nepal's former ruling elite, accuses the Maoists of not fulfilling commitments to dismantle the paramilitary structure of their feared youth wing and to return property grabbed during the civil war. The Young Communist League is a vigilante-style group regularly accused of beatings, kidnappings, extortion and even murder. Deputy army General Kul Bahadur Khadka was appointed as the new army chief as a temporary measure, the government said. 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