Gurkha veterans share doubts ahead of September talks

For years Gurkha soldiers fought wars for Britain, but despite promises of equal pensions and rights, their pleas for fairness remain unaddressed.

Shaindra Thapa hasn’t forgotten the day she heard the news of her husband’s passing in 1990 in a distant foreign land. Her husband, Shankar Thapa, was a British Gurkha soldier, an honourable calling for a Nepali, in the 1990s.