Dalai Lama’s office in Kathmandu closed

Nepal has closed two offices in Kathmandu associated with the Dalai Lama, Tibetan and foreign ministry sources said on Friday.

“The District Administration Office, Kathmandu today issued a notice to order the immediate closure of these two offices linked to the Dalai Lama as they were not registered at the District Administration Office”, the Dalai Lama’s representative in Nepal, Wangchuk Tsering said.

He said an official at the Kathmandu District Office told him that “he, as a Tibetan refugee, can’t represent Dalai Lama in Nepal”. Tsering added that the closure of the office will affect the welfare of 20,000 Tibetan refugees in Nepal. —PTI