SAARC Summit – Little on substance …

Harjit Singh Despite high sounding claims and the ambitious goals set by the eight SAARC members at the just ended 14th summit in New Delhi, the slow moving regional bandwagon is likely to hurtle down the road with a lot of roadblocks. The New Delhi summit was no departure from the earlier ones where the declarations were high on rhetoric and low on substance. The SAARC record of achievements is dismal. At every summit, the member-countries make pledges to make SAARC work. They re …

(16th April 2007 / Source and more articles from April 2007)