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India-Pakistan
More states join India to wreck Saarc summit
2016-09-30
[DAWN] Postponement of the upcoming Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit in Islamabad in November looked certain on Wednesday as three more members -- Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan -- followed in India’s footsteps, pulling out of the leaders’ meeting citing concerns over ’terrorism and external interference’.
It's so nice to see Pakistan get just a little of what it so richly deserves.
An announcement in this regard by Saarc’s current chair Nepal remains a mere formality, which was being delayed because the Nepalese foreign minister and foreign secretary were in New York in connection with the UN General Assembly session. The formal announcement is expected on their return.

A senior Pak diplomat told Dawn that Nepal was being consulted.

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
, according to Radio Pakistain, said the postponement was likely, but the Saarc Secretariat was yet to notify it. Quoting Saarc rules, he said, a summit cannot be held if any member refuses to attend.

India had a day earlier expressed its inability to attend the meeting because of non-conducive environment in the region created by "increasing cross-border terrorist attacks and growing interference in internal affairs of member states by one country".

The Indian decision is attributed to the Sept 18 Uri military camp attack in which 18 soldiers were killed. The latest phase in Pakistain-India tensions started with the eruption of protests in held Kashmire in July, but the situation worsened after the Uri attack.

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