KATHMANDU, April 8 Kyodo To impe...

KATHMANDU, April 8 Kyodo

To impede violence parts of the capital city Kathmandu will be placed subject to curfew Thursday night, the Nepalese direction said.

Curfew will be imposed in the area around Kirtipur in the southwest of the capital from 11 pm Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday, the Kathmandu district administration said in a notice.

The dominion also declared the area within the Ring Road in Kathmandu and Lalitpur cities as riot-hit areas, effective midnight Thursday.

Gatherings of more than four individuals meetings, rallies, demonstrations or declare s of any kind, except religious gatherings, are banned in areas declared ''riot-hit.''

The command measures to ban protests and rallies flow on the eve of a planned ''massive anti-king rally'' in Kathmandu upon Friday.

Meanwhile, Nepalese political parties, agitating throughout King Gyanendra's seizure of executive powers in October 2002 held their eighth day of anti-monarch rallies and testifys in front of the royal palace Thursday.

The parties are demanding the king answer executive powers to a command of political parties that had members in the lower house of parliament.

The parliament was dissolved in May 2002 and no election has taken place since.

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