{"id":51605,"date":"2025-11-03T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51605"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:58:29","slug":"nepals-top-court-stays-recall-of-envoys-setback-to-interim-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51605","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s top court stays recall of envoys, setback to interim PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KATHMANDU, Nov 3 &#8211; The Supreme Court in Nepal has ordered a halt to the recall of nearly a dozen ambassadors, a lawyer said on Monday, in a setback for Prime Minister Sushila Karki and her interim government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karki, a former chief justice who was appointed as the country\u2019s first woman leader in September after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/how-gen-z-protests-over-corruption-jobs-ousted-nepal-pm-oli-2025-09-09\/\">deadly anti-corruption protests<\/a>, recalled 11 ambassadors to countries including China, the United States, Britain and Japan, who were appointed by her predecessor K.P. Sharma Oli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In seeking the envoys&#8217; removal, the government said it was not satisfied with their performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government could not justify its charges against the ambassadors in the court,\u201d Ananta Raj Luitel, an independent lawyer who challenged Karki\u2019s decision, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luitel said all ambassadors would continue to work as usual in their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagdish Kharel, minister for communications and information technology, said the government would \u201crespect the order of the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 73-year-old Karki is tasked with holding fresh elections to the lower house of parliament by March 5 and has appointed a small cabinet of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/nepal-picks-three-with-reformist-credentials-interim-cabinet-2025-09-15\/\">reform-minded figures<\/a>&nbsp;with anti-corruption credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: KATHMANDU, Nov 3 &#8211; The Supreme Court in Nepal has ordered a halt to the recall of nearly a dozen ambassadors, a lawyer said on Monday, in a setback for Prime Minister Sushila Karki and her interim government. Karki, a former chief justice who was appointed as the country\u2019s first woman leader in September after&nbsp;deadly anti-corruption protests, recalled 11 ambassadors to countries including China, the United States, Britain and Japan, who were appointed by her predecessor K.P. Sharma Oli. In seeking the envoys&#8217; removal, the government said it was not satisfied with their performance. \u201cThe government could not justify&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51607,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605\/revisions\/51607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}