India, Pak. enmity main reason for SAARC not prospering: Bangladesh Minister
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India, Pak. enmity main reason for SAARC not prospering: Bangladesh Minister

The Hindu  

Enmity between India and Pakistan is one of the main reasons behind the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation not prospering, Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. His remarks on SAARC comes weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s efforts for greater collaboration among the SAARC countries have repeatedly been challenged with threats and acts of terrorism. A few days later, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said all South Asian countries except one want to hold the SAARC summit, which was called off in 2016, at the earliest, an apparent reference to India. On December 8, 1985 at the first SAARC Summit in Dhaka, the leaders of the seven South Asian states — the Maldives, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka — signed a charter to establish the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

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