Elevated for her integrity after deadly anti-graft protests, Nepal ’s Prime Minister Sushila Karki now confronts her biggest test: addressing protesters’ demands and ensuring elections within six months.

The ‘Gen Z’ demonstrators want the 73-year-old premier to arrest senior party leaders accused of graft, remove politically-connected bureaucrats from key posts, and investigate the deaths of 74 people during this month’s protests.

While they support Karki, who showed zero tolerance for corruption as Nepal’s first female chief justice, they are also impatient for results.

In a social media post earlier this week, Sudan Gurung, who has emerged as the ‘Gen Z’ group’s representative, supported calls for the “immediate arrest” of ministers in the recently overthrown government of K.P. Sh

See Full Page