Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called for a video conference summit of leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation(SAARC) to discuss a common strategy to tackle COVID-19
The SAARC is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia. Its member states are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
It’s headquarter is located in Kathmandu, Nepal
The last SAARC Summit was held on 26-27 November in 2014 in Kathmandu.
The next summit, which was scheduled to take place in November 2016 in Islamabad, was postponed amid tensions between India and Pakistan over the attack on a military camp in Uri
India maintained it will not be able to move on SAARC unless Pakistan stopped cross-border terrorism — a demand it still maintains.