Kathmandu, April 4 -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on expanding its ambit by bringing three key departments currently run by other ministers under its purview.

Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal and senior officials at the ministry are convinced that without bringing three key departments-the wings concerning foreign employment, foreign trade and foreign aid-it would be difficult to deal with the issues they are currently handling. Foreign ministry officials say getting these departments under their ministry is necessary to streamline their jurisdictions.

Similar kinds of attempts were made in the past by foreign ministers but they did not succeed due to multiple reasons including the lack of enough manpower with the foreign m...