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Pakistan can't 'invite' anyone for SAARC, but India's Kartarpur misstep and Navjot Sidhu's antics have created space for this bluff
Sreemoy Talukdar • 6 years agoTruth be told, SAARC is on its deathbed and may continue to remain in the ICU as long as Pakistan doesn’t end its proxy war with India and change its policy of using terror to achieve strategic ends in the neighbourhood. For its behavior, Pakistan has been blacklisted not just by India but also other members.
Pakistan to invite Narendra Modi for SAARC Summit next year: Masterstroke by Imran Khan puts India in a pickle
Fp Editors • 6 years agoReports from Pakistan suggest that the Foreign Ministry is preparing to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the upcoming SAARC summit in Islamabad, possibly early next year. This decision comes a day after India hit out at Pakistan for harbouring terrorists responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
India rejects Pakistan's plea to host SAARC Summit, reiterates terror and talks cannot go together
Ians • 6 years agoMEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the atmosphere in the region was not conducive to hold a SAARC Summit.
PDP hopes Narendra Modi will respond to Imran Khan's offer of talks, says dialogue 'only way out of this stalemate'
• 6 years agoPDP, which was a coalition partner of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir government till its fall on 19 June 2018, was reacting to a tweet by Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal
SCO Summit 2017: India, Pakistan membership could bring them closer at SAARC meet, says diplomat
• 8 years agoThe membership of India and Pakistan in the SCO could bring them closer to address their differences and help facilitate New Delhi's attendance at the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Islamabad, a senior Pakistani diplomat said on Monday.
Sri Lanka can form new relations with Pakistan and China, but what about the others in South Asia?
Padma Rao Sundarji • 8 years agoSri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is currently on his second visit to India within two years since the unlikely 'rainbow' coalition of his United National Party (UNP) and the faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) under President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in a stupendous election in January 2015.
After the collapse of 19th Saarc summit, Sri Lanka looking for other 'viable options'
• 8 years agoWith the collapse of Saarc Summit in Pakistan, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the failure of the regional grouping to deliver "acceptable results" for all members would spell a "bleak future" and compel his country to find other "viable options".
Saarc summit: Nepal says environment not conducive, will talk to member states for new dates
Ians • 8 years agoA day after Pakistan formally announced the postponement of the 19th Saarc Summit in Islamabad, Nepal on Sunday said it will contact all member states of the South Asian grouping and make efforts to convene the summit conference at the earliest citing an environment that was not right for the meeting's success.
Pakistan postpones Saarc Summit, after India and four other countries pull out
• 8 years agoPakistan on Friday postponed the Saarc Summit to be held here next month after India along with four other member states of the regional grouping decided against attending the meet.
Islamabad Saarc Summit cancelled, announces Pakistan
Ians • 8 years agoPakistan on Friday formally announced that the 19th Saarc Summit which was to be held in Islamabad in November this year has been cancelled.