Upper Mustang residents push for full opening for tourism

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(TibetanReview.net, Apr05’26) – To most Tibetans having any awareness about the place, Upper Mustang is a historically Tibetan area in Nepal where a clandestine guerrilla base was established in the early 1960s to launch cross-border attacks on the Chinese army, with aid from the CIA. The guerrilla was disbanded in the early 1970s. All this while, Upper Mustang remained banned for foreign visitors, imposed in 1962. The ban was partially lifted in 1992 to allow foreign tourists to visit the place. Local residents are now intensifying their call for full opening of this formerly independent Tibetan Kingdom of Lo.

Local representatives submitted a memorandum to outgoing Prime Minister Sushila Karki, urging the go...

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