Jumpstarting South Asian integration (Pradumna B. Rana, East Asia Forum)

India and four other countries have pulled out of the 19th South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit to be held in Islamabad in November. India’s decision was taken in the wake of the Uri attack on 18 September 2016. Similar decisions by Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka have led to the cancellation of the summit and several commentators have opined that ‘SAARC is dead’.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/10/13/jumpstarting-south-asian-integration/

Urgent need for new architecture for India’s neighbourhood policy (Observer Research Foundation)

With the crippling of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), India’s quest for a new architecture for its neighbourhood policy has taken on a certain urgency.

http://www.orfonline.org/expert-speaks/urgent-need-new-architecture/

SAARC Tale (Abak Hussain, South Asia Monitor)

Has there ever been a geopolitical union in the world quite as useless as Saarc?

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/saarc-tale/n/19738

When SAARC Became A Tool To Embarrass Than Cooperate… (Observer Research Foundation)

The future of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is in a limbo after its 19th summit to be held in Islamabad this November was postponed as 4 member countries — India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan — refused to attend the meeting citing deterioration of peace and stability in the region due to the rise of terrorism.

http://www.orfonline.org/research/when-saarc-became-a-tool-to-embarrass-than-cooperate/