The take-care prime minister is getting so bored with endless elections he is gorging on ice-cream. Can't blame him, he has a sweet tooth and needs a sugar fix. The good news is that under Nepal's watch, Nepal has officially become self-sufficient in ice-cream.
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Former prime minister-to-be Lotus Flower is back from Malaysia. First, we heard that he was invited by the Asia-Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation, but when he got to KL (on the same flight, by the way, as former Clown Prince Paras) he denied he was invited by that group. But when the marigold-bedecked PKD returned to KTM on Wednesday he held up a certificate to prove the Foundation was genuine. The plaque read:
'We are honor To Appointment Mr Prachanda Path as the Co-Chairman of Asia-Pacific Exchange & Cooperation Foundation (signed) Wunan Xiao.' Go ahead, Google 'Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation'.
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What was Comrade Path doing in Malaysia really? Did he go to meet his Uncooked handlers from the Noida days, or did Comrade Krishna Bahadur accompany the Chairman in person to collect the 500 million bucks promised in The Wiretap? By the way, as a token of appreciation, Nepali journalists in KL presented the ex-prime minister-to-be with a biography of Comrade Mahathir Mohamad. The visit was so secret that when Ram Karki was asked why his Boss was in Malaysia he shrugged his shoulders and said "I have absolutely no idea", and he looked like he meant it. And what's with Sita Comrade's cool new tinted contacts, BTW.
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The Ass has now reached the conclusion that the best place for PKD to meet RAW is in PRC itself. One hears on
the grapevine that Singapore and Bangkok were suggested as rendezvous points by The Spooks, but PKD thought all three had been tainted because of his past meetings with them there, so he changed it to Malaysia. Superfluous came back so charged, he declared war on India on arrival, and fired the first salvo in Phaplu on Wednesday. And Jhallubabu got the fright of his life when someone he thought would support his prime ministerial bid told him to go stuff it. The trouble with PKD and JNK is that both comrades think they can outsmart the other.
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Laldhoj used the time the boss was away in Malaysia to sneak off to Shitall Nibas and secretly meet the president, something he'd not dared do before. PKD found out anyway, which is probably why BRB is cleansing his pro-Indian image within the party to improve his chances ahead of the Baddie Extended Meeting. Looks like the comrades who spent 10 years underground in the jungles terrorising everyone are themselves terrified of the dengue mosquito, and shifted their meeting from Chitwan to Gorkha.
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Nepal's sovereignty has suffered another major blow with the refusal by duty-free shops at the new airport terminal in New Delhi to sell duty-free booze to Kathmandu-bound passengers. We don't know why, but with 10 flights a day between the two capitals and given the Nepali capacity to imbibe fire water, wonder who is losing out? Time to contemplate a diplomatic tit-for-tat and stop selling alcohol to Indians in KTM?
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