Narayan Singh Pun (; died February 21, 2008, in

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ese politician. Prior to starting his political career, he had been a helicopter pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Royal Nepal Army.Nepalnews.com, news from Nepal as it happens
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in the 1999 election on behalf of the

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. He was later expelled from the party on the grounds of collaborating with the

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. He later founded the Nepal Samata Party. Pun founded Karnali Air in 2001. Narayan Singh Pun died at a hospital in New Delhi, India, on February 21, 2008, from an infection that had emerged after a kidney transplant. He was 59 years old.

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