{"id":437332,"date":"2026-10-05T19:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=437332"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:54:27","slug":"chief-of-army-staff-sigdel-off-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/437332.html","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Army Staff Sigdel off to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Chief of the Army Staff Ashok Raj Sigdel has left for the UK today on an official visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-437333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/CoAS.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Directorate of Army Public Relations and Information, he is going there for a week-long official visit at the invitation of General Sir Roland &#8220;Roly&#8221; Walker, Chief of the General Staff of the British Army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief of Army Staff Sigdel was bid farewell by Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Pradeep Jung KC at Tribhuvan International Airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit is believed to not only support the long-standing military relationship between the two countries but also contribute to Nepal&#8217;s foreign policy through military diplomacy, according to a statement released by the Directorate of the Nepali Army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief of General Staff Pradeep Jung KC will function as the Acting Chief of the Army Staff during the absence of Chief of Army Staff Sigdel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Army Staff Sigdel was bid farewell by Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Pradeep Jung KC at Tribhuvan International Airport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":437333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-437332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437334,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437332\/revisions\/437334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437332"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=437332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}