Why is the king sacked out on the floor?
Parliament was dissolved in May 2002 and five months later, the king sacked the prime minister.
Last Saturday, the king sacked the water and electricity minister, who had drawn criticism for his handling of price increases, including a suggestion that citizens upset over high water bills dig their own wells.
Evidently acknowledging a need for change, the king sacked his intelligence chief on the same day as Mr Bakhit got his cards.As a response to the Arab upheavals and a wave of lesser demonstrations in Jordan itself, the king has set up a "national dialogue" and committees to alter laws on elections and political parties.
Last week, the king sacked PM Samir Rifai over the slow pace of reform and appointed Marouf al-Bakhit, a former army general and ambassador to Israel.
At the outset of the protests in February, the king sacked his prime minister who protesters accused of being insensitive to their economic hardships and quickly set up a national dialogue committee to discuss much needed political and economic reforms.
The alliance ended after the Babylonian king sacked Mari and destroyed it.
For a start, they want the king to sack his appointed prime minister in favour of an all-party government.
"There is no provision for the king to sack a duly elected prime minister," Mr. Deuba said in the interview, with The Katmandu Post.
"An obvious move would have been for the king to sack Khalifa," says an intellectual, who defines himself as a member of the Sunni silent majority.
According to legend, Mycenae was the capital of Agamemnon, the Achaean king who sacked the city of Troy.
