As the postponed 13th SAARC summit comes nigh in Dhaka in the first half of November, we must once again go through the exercise of trying to understand our region beyond the matrix defined by SAARC.

Following the events of 2021, Afghanistan entered a unique political reality in which power is held by the Taliban as a de facto governing authority, yet without full international recognition. In ...

India and four other countries pulled out of the 19th summit of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) which was to be held in Islamabad in November. This was a fallout of the ...