Mohamed Muizzu made the claims during Independence Address in Malé Sunday. Maldives is a member of SAARC, but not a part of the regional organisation India is promoting–BIMSTEC.
Bangladeshi Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain sought Jaishankar’s support to revive SAARC last weekend. India boycotted a SAARC summit in Pakistan after 2016 Uri terrorist attack.
International media is also keeping an eye on Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s upcoming visit to Pakistan, but doesn’t have very high hopes for thawing of bilateral ties.
The former high commissioner to India suggested Pakistan appoint an envoy, or find middle ground in SAARC. Both countries withdrew their envoys follow tension over Kashmir in 2019.
With nearly half of its population under the age of 24 and led by India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, South Asia is poised to have the world's largest youth labor force until 2040.
Development comes ahead of the 6th BIMSTEC Summit in September. The grouping has gradually emerged as the “preferred platform” for regional cooperation in South Asia.
The Business Summit slated for 6-8 August comes at a time when BIMSTEC has gradually emerged as ‘preferred platform’ for regional cooperation in South Asia.
The lakeside hub in Sri Sathya Sai district aims to serve a fast-growing industrial corridor while helping startups, local entrepreneurs and skilled youth find jobs.
Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.
Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.
Asoka uncle is back…back at it with the apocalyptic “India is isolated!” doom-posting.
It’s the exact same broken record every single time… 2 neighboring Islamic nations mention SAARC in a joint statement, and suddenly our resident grand strategist declares that Indian diplomacy has collapsed, the West is laughing at us, and the sky is falling.
What he conveniently forgets (or just ignores because it ruins his dramatic narrative) is that SAARC was rendered dead in the water by Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism, not an Indian whim.
These 2 neighbors mentionee a dead regional forum in a press release, and suddenly Bharat is “isolated” from the entire planet? Really uncle?
SAARC didn’t die because of Indian diplomacy… it died because nobody normal sits at a summit table with a terror-exporting state like Pakistan just to take nice group photos. India moved on to actual, working partnerships while these guys are stuck dreaming about a 1990s ghost ship…
And Muizzu offering to “mediate” between India and Pakistan? Hilarious. That’s not a diplomatic breakthrough… that’s just a small-time politician playing to his home crowd. But sure, let’s pretend a trillion-dollar economic engine and global power is trembling in its boots because of a press communique…
Bottom line: Classic doom-posting from asok, the international relations expert, who mistakes local political posturing for global isolation… The view from his doom-cave must be exhausting…
India is getting isolated in South Asia. It cannot be seen as a success of foreign policy and diplomacy. Performative most of the time. Facile to believe this does not affect how India is regarded in the rest of the world, including the West.
Asoka uncle is back…back at it with the apocalyptic “India is isolated!” doom-posting.
It’s the exact same broken record every single time… 2 neighboring Islamic nations mention SAARC in a joint statement, and suddenly our resident grand strategist declares that Indian diplomacy has collapsed, the West is laughing at us, and the sky is falling.
What he conveniently forgets (or just ignores because it ruins his dramatic narrative) is that SAARC was rendered dead in the water by Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism, not an Indian whim.
These 2 neighbors mentionee a dead regional forum in a press release, and suddenly Bharat is “isolated” from the entire planet? Really uncle?
SAARC didn’t die because of Indian diplomacy… it died because nobody normal sits at a summit table with a terror-exporting state like Pakistan just to take nice group photos. India moved on to actual, working partnerships while these guys are stuck dreaming about a 1990s ghost ship…
And Muizzu offering to “mediate” between India and Pakistan? Hilarious. That’s not a diplomatic breakthrough… that’s just a small-time politician playing to his home crowd. But sure, let’s pretend a trillion-dollar economic engine and global power is trembling in its boots because of a press communique…
Bottom line: Classic doom-posting from asok, the international relations expert, who mistakes local political posturing for global isolation… The view from his doom-cave must be exhausting…
India is getting isolated in South Asia. It cannot be seen as a success of foreign policy and diplomacy. Performative most of the time. Facile to believe this does not affect how India is regarded in the rest of the world, including the West.