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Gaurav Pokharel
@gauravpokharel.bsky.social
A Kathmandu based journalist.

Bylines: The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Quint, CNN News18, OnlineKhabar and more.
Pinned
“I don’t want to be cured, because if they think I am better, then they will send me back to war again,” said Pun, who added that his efforts to get the Nepal authorities to rescue him had been in vain. “I don’t even have my passport. Please, I don’t want to die.”
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‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepali men on frontlines in Ukraine
Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families say
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Promised crackdown on corruption is not happening fast enough for many who saw government toppled within a day of protests

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Unease at slow pace of change in Nepal one month on from gen Z protests
Promised crackdown on corruption is not happening fast enough for many who saw government toppled within a day of protests
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My recent for @theguardian.com

Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal

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Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US
Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Gaurav Pokharel
Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice.

At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival.’

✍️ Gaurav Pokharel and @sneweyy.bsky.social report.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice
At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Gaurav Pokharel
Latest with @gauravpokharel.bsky.social, on the stand off between devotees who consider the Gadhimai rituals an untouchable cornerstone of their religion, & activists who decry the "world's bloodiest sacrfice" as cruel & unnecessary @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice
At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Dispatch from Bariyarpur, Bara: The World’s Bloodiest Animal Sacrifice Event – For The Daily Telegraph

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice
At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
बबरमहलस्थित जिल्ला अदालत, काठमाडौं परिसरमा मंगलबार अपराह्न विवादास्पद मेडिकल व्यवसायी दुर्गा प्रसाईंको प्रतीक्षा थियो । तर, एकाएक मानव तस्करीका आरोपी कोशी प्रदेशका पूर्व आन्तरिक मामिला तथा कानून मन्त्री लीलाबल्लभ अधिकारी देखापरे

www.onlinekhabar.com/2024/11/1569...
अदालतमा लीलाबल्लभ अधिकारी : ग्रहदशा बिग्रेछ
४ मंसिर, काठमाडौं । बबरमहलस्थित जिल्ला अदालत, काठमाडौं परिसरमा मंगलबार अपराह्न विवादास्पद मेडिकल व्यवसायी दुर्गा प्रसाईंको प्रतीक्षा थियो । तर, एकाएक मानव तस्करीका आरोपी कोशी प्रदेशका पूर्व आन्तरिक मा...
www.onlinekhabar.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:40 PM
“I don’t want to be cured, because if they think I am better, then they will send me back to war again,” said Pun, who added that his efforts to get the Nepal authorities to rescue him had been in vain. “I don’t even have my passport. Please, I don’t want to die.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...
‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepali men on frontlines in Ukraine
Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families say
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:26 AM