SAARC SUMMIT: Kathmandu for conducive environment

India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj may have appeared belligerent in her speech at the United Nations. But she represented India's exasperation over Pakistan's interference in Kashmir and elsewhere. After the killing of 14 soldiers in Uri, one ...

Capital Market Integration in South Asia; Realizing the SAARC Opportunity: Book Review By Sourajit Aiyer Capital Market Integration in South Asia; Realizing the SAARC Opportunity (Elsevier Publishers, UK) Lee Kuan Yew, credited for ...

Similarly, even Asean, less integrated but a more harmonious union of 10 nations, is under strain over Chinese attempts to grab most of the South China Sea. The moral is that no union is immune to acts of outside actors, state or non-state. But in ...

Islamabad: The SAARC summit of 2016 is predicted to have been cancelled, a senior diplomatic source in Kathmandu told The Hindu. Hours after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan followed India's decision to stay away from the November summit to be ...

The article below represents a preview only and is not meant for reuse or republishing. Nepal, Sept. 29 -- Nepal, the current chair of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), has said that it is for holding the 19th SAARC ...

The Indo Pak battle has now clearly got itself entrenched in the choppy waters of diplomacy. This isn't a terrain where one can engage in a war of words, rather it a scenario of creating pressure points. So after boycotting the upcoming SAARC summit citing ...

Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. ISLAMABAD, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria expressed regret for India's decision to pull out of the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit ...

Refusing to support India's decision to pull out from the scheduled 19th Saarc Summit followed by Bhutan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Nepal, the present Chair of Saarc, has strongly urged the member countries to ensure the summit was on time. The post Nepal ...

In other news, the BSP is wooing the upper castes in Uttar Pradesh in a bid to broaden its appeal before next year's assembly polls New Delhi: Mint brings to you your daily dose of political news reported by newsrooms across the country Pakistan ...