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PAC Chair Pokharel sends letter to school to extend his wife’s leave

The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Rishikesh Pokharel has sent a letter to the school where his wife Anjala Koirala teaches for an extension of work leave. Koirala is absconding in the fraud case of Umagouri Agricultural Cooperative Society in Morang.
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