KATHMANDU, Oct 11 Kyodo (EDS: ADD...

KATHMANDU, Oct 11 Kyodo

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Nepal's King Gyanendra appointed an interim control headed by new Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand upon Friday to oversee parliamentary elections in the Himalayan kingdom.

The king, who last week dismissed Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister and his cabinet and temporarily assumed all executive powers, announced a nine-member cabinet to labor for under Chand, a royal palace announcement said.

nevertheless the king did not give a just discovered timetable for the polls, which had previously been locate for Nov. 13.

The announcement purely said the new government has been given the responsibility to restore peace and detain local and parliamentary elections in a unrestrained and impartial manner as in a short time as possible.

With Friday's appointment, Chand, 63 from Baitadi district in far-western Nepal, became prime minister of Nepal for the fourth time. The last time he serv as prime minister was in 1997 when he headed a three-party coalition.

In the strange cabinet, the prime minister finishs as many as 13 portfolios, including defense and royal palace affairs.

Nepal Sadbhawana (Goodwill) Party President Badri Prasad Mandal was appointed factor prime minister, the announcement said, while Narendra Bikram Shah, a former foreign secretary, was made foreign minister and Badri Prasad Shrestha, a former ambassador to Japan, named finance minister.

The recent cabinet also include five ministers and brace assistant ministers.

Renowned Nepalese social worker Anuradha Koirala has been taken in as the barely woman in the cabinet, becoming minister in charge of women children and social welfare.

Last Friday, King Gyanendra dismissed Deuba, who last May dissolved parliament and announced new parliamentary elections Nov. 13 after the latter sought postponement of catalogue of headss by more than a year.

In seeking the postponement Deuba cited an upsurge in violence through Maoist rebels bent on abolishing the 250-year-old monarchy and establishing a republican state along communist lines.

The rebels, waging an armed insurgency that has claimed more than 6600 lives since it started in 1996 have in late months been multiplying their attacks nationwide and threatening candidates and voter with death.

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