SAARC Ministers’ meet cancelled after Pakistan wished Taliban to take part

The SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) assembly of international ministers scheduled to be held on twenty fifth September 2021 in New York now stands cancelled over lack of consent of members who didn’t agree with participation of Islamist group Taliban which is at present governing Afghanistan.
This comes after Imran Khan led Pakistan authorities insisted and demanded that Taliban be allowed to take part and ship a consultant for the SAARC summit. The SAARC summit is being held on the sidelines of 76th session of UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Reports citing sources stated that Pakistan’s demand was unilaterally opposed by all member nations.
Further, stories citing diplomatic sources stated that Pakistan wished the SAARC Chair Nepal to ensure that the previous Afghanistan authorities led by Ashraf Ghani is not going to characterize the nation on the SAARC assembly. Pakistan wished to maintain an ’empty chair’ as a substitute. Reports stated that SAARCH Chair Nepal refused to provide any such assure to both Pakistan or Taliban management. Hence, as of now the assembly stands cancelled.
Taliban regime has not been recognised by most governments internationally. Also, Taliban has not but approached the UN for credentials.
In 2020, the SAARC assembly was carried out just about due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SAARC includes eight member states, particularly, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SAARC was arrange on 17 January 1987 in Kathmandu, Nepal and Afghanistan joined the group in 2007 and is the youngest member within the group. Australia, China, the European Union, Iran, Japan, Mauritius, Myanmar, South Korea, and the United States are the observers.
The Islamist group Taliban took over Afghanistan in August this yr, days after the US introduced withdrawal of troops, ending a twenty yr outdated ‘war against terror’, thereby sending the nation into chaos. Since then, there have been stories of Islamist group finishing up atrocities in a bid to implement the Islamic Sharia in Afghanistan. You can learn extra about it right here.