Life in the Nepalese capital was almost back to normal yesterday with the government relaxing curfew orders for 10 hours.
A government announcement said that the curfew imposed on Wednesday after widespread rioting following the killing of 12 Nepalese in Iraq was being relaxed from 4am to 2pm yesterday.
On Saturday the government relaxed the curfew for 10 hours, eight hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, to enable people to buy food and other essentials.
Police said no untoward incidents took place during the relaxation of the curfew on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The government imposed the curfew Wednesday afternoon after some of the worst-ever rioting seen in the Nepalese capital.
Mobs targeted employment agencies that send Nepalese laborers abroad as well as Moslem shops and five mosques.
Political and Moslem religious leaders as well as business owners accused the government of not doing enough to prevent the riots.
On Saturday, they complained that despite repeated calls for help, the government failed to send security forces and even where police and army personnel were present, they stood by and did nothing.
But life is fast returning to normal, with domestic airlines resuming flight services yesterday.
"With the situation getting calm, we have resumed our service," said Rupesh Joshi, marketing manager of Buddha Airways.
Another domestic airlines, Cosmic Airlines, operated a large number of flights Friday and Saturday during the periods when the curfew was relaxed.
"After the unprecedented riot erupted in the capital, our flights had come to a halt. However, we were able to restart service from Friday," said a airline official.
There are seven domestic airlines, including state owned Royal Nepal Airlines, that operate regular flights from Kathmandu. Foreign airlines also began normalizing their service to Nepal.
"We have begun our service as we found the situation to be moving toward normalcy," Bhola Thapa, General Sales Agents of Gulf Airways in Nepal.
Gulf, Qatar and Pakistan International airlines suspended their flights to Nepal following Wednesday's riots.
If the situation remains normal the curfew will likely be lifted today.
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