In South Asia, China and Pakistan together are preparing to do a new diplomatic game. China and Pakistan together are preparing to create such a new faction in this region, which can replace the South Asian countries’ organization SAARC. If China is the brain behind this project, then Pakistan and Bangladesh are supporting it.
According to reports, Pakistan and Bangladesh were also involved in a meeting held on June 19 in Kunming, China. In this meeting, the entire plan was prepared regarding the new group. The meeting was held after a tripartite meeting held in May, which talked about expanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and increasing regional cooperation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
SAARC organization is inactive since 2016
The South Asian Regional Cooperation Organization (SAARC) was established on 8 December 1985 in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It had 7 founding members, while Afghanistan joined the group in 2007. However, this organization is inactive since 2016. Its last meeting was held in Kathmandu in the year 2014. The meeting of the 19th SAARC Summit was to be held in Islamabad in November 2016, but after the Uri attack, India had booked Pakistan. 17 Indian soldiers were martyred in this attack.
China and Pakistan agree to create a new group
Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan also withdrew their names from the summit citing concerns of terrorism and regional intervention. The conference was canceled and after that it has not been scheduled again. The Express Tribune report states that both Pakistan and China are convinced that a new organization is a demand for time for regional integration and contact.
Bangladesh rejected the plan of new faction
The report said that SAARC members, including Sri Lanka, Maldives and Afghanistan, are expected to be part of the new group. However, Bangladesh has rejected the idea of ​​any emerging coalition between Dhaka, Beijing and Islamabad and said that there was no ‘political’ meeting between the three countries in China’s Kunming.
Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Advisor M Tauheed Hussain said after a meeting held on June 19 in Kunming that we are not going to form a new alliance. He said, ‘This was an official level meeting, not political level. In this, “there was no talk about the formation of an alliance.”
What does India want?
The report quoted diplomatic sources as saying that India will be invited to join the new group, but ‘given its different interests, it is unlikely to give positive response from it.’ Whereas India has tried to use SAARC for better regional cooperation and contact.
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