https://www.scmp.com/rss/508710/feed Ramesh Thakur is an emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, a fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a senior research fellow with the Toda Peace Institute, and a former United Nations assistant secretary general. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com With nearly 1.9 billion people living in South Asia, the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) is clearly among the biggest regional organisations in the world by representative population, yet it has failed to unite member states on common issues in the mould of the better known, and larger, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has 10 members, or the 27-member European Union. Instead, despite their shared histories and administrative and economic... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3119589/can-south-asia-put-india-pakistan-hostilities-behind-unite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3119589/can-south-asia-put-india-pakistan-hostilities-behind-unite?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:00:14 +0000