Kathmandu (AFP) - Nepal on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Qatar after she compared the Middle Eastern emirate to an "open jail" for thousands of Nepali migrants who face abuse from employers there.
Maya Kumari Sharma made the remarks six months ago to the BBC Nepali service, but they were reproduced on Thursday in a front-page investigation by Britain's Guardian newspaper into the deaths of Nepali migrants on projects connected to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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