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The SAARC question

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17.07.2026

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) has been dormant for over a decade, almost entirely due to the foreign policy of India. No summit has been held since 2014. The 19th summit, scheduled for Islamabad in 2016, was indefinitely postponed after India boycotted the event. That boycott was ordered by the government of Narendra Modi, who was then barely a year into his first term as prime minister, on the pretext of the Uri Attack about two months before the summit. Since then, India has refused to let Saarc........

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