SAARC summit in Pakistan will have to be postponed, says India; Nepal urges for conducive environment

Delhi: India on Wednesday said that SAARC summit (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation) would have to be postponed since four nations had decided not to attend it in Islamabad in November.
MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said, “SAARC summit will be postponed since four nations have decided to not attend it in Islamabad, there’s no other way. SAARC rule position is very clear. If any one head of state or government decides not to participate in summit, it has to be postponed.”
“However, a formal announcement can only be made by Nepal after they have done their internal consultation,” the MEA spokesperson added.
In the worst attack on the Army in many years, heavily armed militants suspected to be from Pakistan-based JeM had stormed a base in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir in the wee hours of September 18, killing 18 jawans, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assert that those responsible would not go ‘unpunished’.
Located barely a few kilometres from the Line of Control (LoC) and some 70 km from Srinagar, the base was subjected to the brazen attack by four terrorists at around 5.30 am.
Most of the army casualties resulted from the fire in tents in which jawans were sleeping.
After the three-hour gunbattle, four terrorists were killed by the Army.