ISLAMABAD:India has hinted at sabotaging this year’s South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit or pulling away from the initiative altogether.
The issue of organising the SAARC summit was discussed in a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal’s premier KP Sharma Oli, who is in New Delhi on a three-day visit.
SAARC summits are usually held biennially hosted by a member state in alphabetical order. The member state hosting the summit assumes the chair of the association.
The last summit was held in Kathmandu in 2014. The following meeting, expected to take place in Islamabad in 2016, had to be postponed after some members, led by India, pulled out from the summit.
India had expressed its inability to participate in the summit. APP/AFP