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SAARC rules be damned, Pakistan will host summit
Updated On: 29 September, 2016 08:52 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Even as India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan pull out of meet, Pakistan flies in face of SAARC charter, says it will host summit at Islamabad in November</p>


India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif during the 18th SAARC Summit in 2014. Pic/AFP
Islamabad: Unfazed by India and three other SAARC nations deciding to pull out from the summit here, Pakistan yesterday said it will still hold the meet in November as scheduled which flies in the face of the SAARC charter under which even if one head of government skips the event, it gets automatically postponed or cancelled. Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said Pakistan will host the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in November, Radio Pakistan reported yesterday.
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