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Pakistan has formally announced that the 19th South Asian Summit which was to be held in Islamabad next month has been cancelled.

A statement from the Pakistan Foreign Office said, “The spirit of the SAARC Charter is violated when a member state casts the shadow of its bilateral problems on the multilateral forum for regional cooperation.”

Sri Lanka on Friday said it regretted that the prevailing environment in the region was not conducive for holding the 19th SAARC Summit in Islamabad on November 9 and 10.

Earlier India, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Bangaladesh also said they were skipping the summit.

 

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