Nepal, June 12 -- fter Prime Minister Balendra Shah's office detained a government secretary for messaging him to be made ambassador, Nepal's cybersphere ended up arguing about a joke. Not the arrest.

Secretary Krishnahari Pushkar is detained by police in Teku for nine hours on Saturday, until he walks out on bail at 10pm. The prime minister logs on at 10:15 with a mocking nocturnal post.

Education Minister and government spokesperson Sashmit Pokharel and others joined in with similar sarcasm. The UML's Mahesh Basnet took the bait, and prescribed psychological counselling for the prime minister, sounding exactly like the humourless uncle he is. But by the next day, Pushkar's arrest was forgotten. The debate has shifted to whether the p...