Nepal Blockade…

A few weeks ago, on my way back home to Oman from Bhutan, I stopped in Nepal and saw for myself the effects of the two month blockade. My driver said he had waited for three days in line to get gas for our vehicle before taking me on a private tour of Hindu and Buddhist temples. Nepal has been facing severe shortages of fuel, cooking gas, and medicine. It was difficult for me to see so many people struggling from the lingering devastation and trauma of the earthquake — plus the pressures of the blockade. In fact, to fly back to the Sultanate of Oman, our plane had to land first in India to refuel — as there was not enough jet fuel in Kathmandu. Today, tens of thousands of students protested the blockade in the capital — with many more protests to come…