The 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation successfully concluded on Sunday evening, where leaders of the eight member countries agreed to adopt four agreements on food security, trade and terrorism.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to work out a "common strategy" to deal with extremism and terrorism, including across the borders, in a joint statement in Colombo on Sunday.
In a virtual indictment of ISI's involvement in the bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul, the US on Sunday asked Pakistan to get its intelligence network to work towards tackling terrorism that is affecting its neighbourhood.
A Sri Lankan security officer attached to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went missing, causing embarrassing moments to both the hosts and the Indians, a local newspaper said on Sunday.
Amid political wrangling in Nepal over government formation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday met its caretaker Premier Girija Prasad Koirala on the margins of the SAARC summit in Colombo.- South Asian leaders on Saturday demanded strong action to stop terrorism spreading like "wildfire", as a regional summit opened in Colombo, dominated by heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
On the eve of his visit to Colombo for the SAARC Summit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday pitched for cooperation among its member countries to face the "common challenges".
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani for the first time on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit in Colombo, scheduled for August 2-3.
A meeting of officials of South Asian countries began at Colombo on Sunday, after an unprecedented crackdown on stray dogs ahead of the SAARC summit early next month.
India on Friday said that progress has been made in the direction of achieving regional cooperation for tackling trans-national crime and terrorism in the two years of New Delhi's chairmanship of SAARC.
The Tamil Tigers may have announced a unilateral 10-day truce but the Sri Lankan government is leaving nothing to chance for the upcoming SAARC summit.- The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and political organization of eight countries in Southern Asia.
Observing that the recent blast at its embassy in Kabul shows the vulnerability of SAARC nations to terrorism, India on Thursday pressed for early finalisation of the regional Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty to deal with the menace.
The LTTE on Monday night declared unilateral ceasefire from July 26 to August 4 keeping in mind the SAARC summit.
Sri Lanka has denied rumours that a large contingent of Indian troops would be deployed in Colombo to provide security to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 15th SAARC summit, scheduled to open in Colombo on August 1, 2008.- India and other SAARC members have adopted a three-year action plan to combat climate change, pressing the developed countries to establish a special fund to save them from the drastic effects of the phenomena.
