Kathmadnu, April 29 -- Most visiting foreign diplomats-senior or junior-in the past would get to meet Nepal's top political leaders, including the prime minister. But that seems to be changing under the Balendra Shah government.

Shah, despite the request from the visiting side, did not meet Samir Paul Kapur, the United States assistant secretary of state, who arrived on a three-day tour of Nepal on April 20. Now, even as US President Donald Trump's special envoy for South and Central Asia, Sergio Gor, 39, is arriving in Kathmandu on Thursday evening, Shah has not given his word for a meeting yet.

Gor is currently serving as the US ambassador to India and is known as a Trump insider. Besides entrusting him with the responsibility of serv...