A lack of South Asian Cooperation

THERE may be some awkward pauses this week in Colombo, where South Asia’s leaders are due to meet to discuss, among other shared concerns, terrorism. It is not that they will be unprepared. Terrorism, with food security and energy, was long ago listed as a major talking point for the annual summit of the South Asia Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which is being held in Sri Lanka’s capital. The problem is that there has been so much terrorism about, including a suicide attack on India’s embassy in Kabul in June, in which an Indian diplomat and general were killed, for which India and Afghanistan blamed Pakistan. All three countries are members of SAARC. The Economist