KATHMANDU, Nepal – On Sunday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal asked Foreign Minister Bimala Rai Paudyal to cancel her trip to Geneva just hours before leaving to attend a high-level session of the UN Human Rights Council.
The development comes as Kathmandu prepares to form a new ruling coalition without the CPN-UML ahead of next month’s presidential election.
Foreign Minister Paudyal, a UML member, was