Kathmandu, April 17 -- In a bid to engage the new Balendra Shah administration, a top US diplomat, Samir Paul Kapur, the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, is arriving in Kathmandu on Monday on a three-day visit.

Kapur will be the senior-most foreign diplomat and official to visit Kathmandu after Shah assumed office on March 27.

A Nepali diplomat from the Nepali Embassy in Washington, DC, and an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to the Post that Paul is arriving in Kathmandu on Monday to congratulate the new government. He will listen to the priorities of the new government in Kathmandu and convey how Washington wants to engage with it, according to officials.

However, neither side has formally...