19th SAARC Summit News
Nepal, the current Chair of SAARC, on Saturday had said that it will hold talks with member countries to press for holding the postponed Summit.
The Saarc Summit was scheduled to be held in Islamabad in November.
Pakistan on Friday postponed the SAARC Summit to be held in October after India along with four other member states of the regional grouping decided against attending the meet.
In a big diplomatic blow to Pakistan, after India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, Maldives on Friday became the sixth state to pull out of the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad.
Pakistan is the rotational host of the 19th SAARC summit whose future is hanging in balance after five countries pulled out their participation from the event.
The early morning attack on the Uri Army base on September 18 claimed the lives of 18 Indian soldiers.
India on Tuesday announced that it was pulling out of the Islamabad summit in the wake of the September 18 cross-border terror attack on an Indian Army base in Uri town.
The 19th SAARC Summit to be hosted by Pakistan in November is likely to be postponed with India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan - four of the eight members of the South Asian grouping - deciding to pull out, citing incitement of terrorism in the region.
The 19th SAARC Summit was scheduled to be held in Pakistan's capital Islamabad from November 9 to 10, 2016.
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