News, Views From Nepal

Yuba Nath Lamsal It is increasingly being felt that Nepal’s unique geo-strategic location and its strength have not been duly utilized to promote and enhance our national interest and image in the regional and international arena. But this geo-strategic strength has been dubbed as Nepal’s weakness and vulnerability. Even the interlocutors of formulation and conduct of our foreign policy seem to have subscribed to this view. Nepal is located in strategically vital position as it is between China and India. China is already a global power. India is a regional power, which has the potential to grow further to become a global power. Despite some history’s baggages of conflict like border disputes, China and India are not in the confrontational mood. Given the magnitude of growth, development and rise of China, Beijing does not view India as its competitor, whereas New Delhi, too, seems to have acknowledged this fact. These two countries are in the mood of enlarging the area and...

Yuba Nath Lamsal It has been widely believed that Nepal’s political parties are fast losing credibility among the people because of their deviation from the ideology and political values they cherished. Most of Nepal’s existing political parties seem to have clearly devoid of the ideology and principle on which they were founded. As political parties and their leaders have already departed from the path of their ideological orientation and values and have adopted market politics marked by the taste of new hip-pop generation, Nepal’s politics is heading towards a game and gamble for power and position. None of the political parties practice what they preach. This inconsistency in principle and practice, and rhetoric and action has made it hard to predict what course of action the parties and leaders will take. When principle, ideology and moral authority cease to exist and fail to guide the parties and leaders, anything is possible, and that makes the parties and leaders unr...