Nepal, Nov. 6 -- For Prime Minister Balendra Shah and his coterie of advisers, it has been an eventful week between the holidays, even as the rift between the RSP and its own government continues to grow.

The PMO has been dealing with several leaks involving national security and judicial institutions, ordering the detention of journalists (while denying it) who reported on the very same leaks, and holding bureaucrats at the PMO in order to prompt them into canceling an important irrigation project.

And it all climaxed with the dismissal of Inspector General of Police Dan Bahadur Karki on Wednesday. Is the government multi-tasking, or firefighting?

Spokesperson and Education Minister Sasmit Pokharel used doublespeak to explain that Ka...