{"id":422085,"date":"2025-12-26T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=422085"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:33:29","slug":"former-army-lt-gen-bala-nanda-sharma-appointed-nepals-foreign-affairs-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/12\/26\/422085.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Army Lt. Gen. Bala Nanda Sharma appointed Nepal\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> President Ram Chandra Paudel has appointed former Nepali Army Lieutenant General Bala Nanda Sharma as the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the recommendation of Prime Minister Sushila Karki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His swearing-in ceremony at the Office of the President, in Sheetal Niwas, is scheduled to be held this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharma previously served as the coordinator of the Prime Minister-led Special Committee on Army Integration after the Maoists joined the peace process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/bala.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-422086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/bala.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/bala-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/bala-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Owing to his effective leadership, Sharma was also entrusted with heading the COVID-19 Crisis Management Center under the COVID-19 Steering Committee during the KP Sharma Oli government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also served as the head of Nepal\u2019s newly established National Defense University and as Force Commander, contributing significantly to national defense and strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: President Ram Chandra Paudel has appointed former Nepali Army Lieutenant General Bala Nanda Sharma as the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the recommendation of Prime Minister Sushila Karki. His swearing-in ceremony at the Office of the President, in Sheetal Niwas, is scheduled to be held this afternoon. Sharma previously served as the coordinator of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":422086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-422085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422088,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422085\/revisions\/422088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422085"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=422085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}