SAARC leaders speak out on need to combat terrorism
President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, who attended the Summit for the first time spoke about the need to combat terrorism collectively. “Some state actors have been found to assist non-state actors,” he said.
During his address at the SAARC Summit, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan said that his vision for the region was of a dispute-free South Asia where instead of fighting one another, the countries jointly fought poverty, illiteracy, disease, malnourishment and unemployment.(KH)