SAARC Summit
By Guest Blogger • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics • One ResponseThe 16th SAARC Summit is scheduled to be held in Bhutan on April 28 and 29.It is the 16th Summit held so far but has never been able to bring about any fruitful result.
This time the session will ponder over issues such as cross border water sharing,food security,financial crisis,social safety and security,visa procedures,mutual investment and above all the menace of terrorism.
Special emphasis would be on tackling the menace of terrorism that is looming large on these South Asian countries particularly Pakistan and Afghanistan and to some extent India too. Previously political reasons deferred any progress ans SAARC turned to be a mere sitting sessions between representatives of different states.
Regardless of the importance South Asia encompasses SAARC has been unable to cater to its responsibility and failed to achieve any achievement when compared to European Union or any other regional organisation.
Will the recent meeting bring about the much needed changes its member countries yearn for?
By Saima
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Hi Saima,
Originally SAARC was conceived as an organisation to promote culture and people to people contact etc with no POLITICS. But Pakistan always wanted the forum to be used for raising the Kashmir issue and other bilateral problems with India so that it wanted it to be an equal power to India without the size, or economic clout.Every country in SAARC Ha common border with India. Now Bangladesh has come out of the conflict orbit and it is having the benefit of that policy. India has burnt its fingers in SriLNKA WITH lTTE. Nepalese monarchy has learnt its lesson by playing with firre in the guise of maoists and anti/Indianess. They themselves got wiped out in the bargain.Now Pakistan was using terror as a weapon and slowly it is dawning in its mindset that it is not religion and terror but economy is the clout of a nation.