The government appointed Additional Inspector General (AIG) Kishor Kumar Lama as the officiating chief of Armed Police Force (AFP), on Sunday after its chief Sanat Kumar Basnet retired.
AIG Lama, however, will get to spearhead the security agency for two weeks only as he is obligated to retirement on July 30, the day he will complete 30 years of service.
After the Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister's Office in Singha Durbar, Minister for Education Ganga Lal Tuladhar informed the media that AIG Lama, who is the senior most official in the APF after IG Basnet's retirement, has been entitled with the responsibility to look after the .youngest security agency in the country as its officiating chief.
However, the Cabinet did not take any decision regarding the appointment of chief of National Investigation Department, the country's intelligence agency. The post has been lying vacant after its chief Ashok Dev Bhatta retired on June 28.
Senior NID officials Jit Bahadur KC and Moti Gurung are taken for the main contenders for the post.