Social distancing with India: Pak stays away from Saarc meets on Covid-19

Earlier this week, Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials' video conference on Covid-19 because as per the neighboiring country, it should have been managed by Saarc secretariat

Pakistan’s grudge
 

Earlier this week, Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials’ video conference on Covid-19 because as per the neighboiring country, it should have been managed by the secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), not hosted by India.
 

Trade officials of all Saarc countries (except Pakistan) met via videoconferencing to discuss the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on intra-regional trade and the effect of travel restrictions. In the virtual conference, the trade officials broadly agreed to identify new ways to “sustain and expand” the intra-regional trade to offset the huge economic cost of the coronavirus