Top updates: Nepal protest leaders propose former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as interim PM

Leaders of the protest against corruption and the government in Nepal on Wednesday proposed former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to serve as the country’s interim prime minister, reported The New York Times.

Karki told CNN-News18 that she had accepted the protesters’ request.

Earlier in the day, the Nepali Army extended orders prohibiting public gatherings till 5 pm and said that after that, a nationwide curfew will be imposed till 6 am on Thursday amid the widespread protests, The Kathmandu Post reported.

The Army claimed that “unruly groups” had infiltrated the protests and had carried out acts of vandalism, arson, looting, targeted attacks on individuals and property, and attempted sexual assaults.

It said that a curfew was necessary to safeguard security and urged citizens to support efforts to contain criminal activity, according to The Kathmandu Post.

On Tuesday, hours after Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned from his post, the Army said that it will assume control of security operations in the country from 10 pm as violent unrest continued for a second day in Kathmandu and other cities, PTI reported.

The Army’s Directorate of Public Relations and Information stated that some groups were taking “undue advantage of the difficult situation and causing severe damage to ordinary citizens and public property”.

All security agencies would be fully mobilised if violence continued, the statement added. It also...

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