Nepal, March 12 -- The role, scope and importance of SAARC should not be compromised just because of conflict between India and Pakistan

During his speech at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conclave held in September 2016 in India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi challenged Pakistan to make war against poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and infant and maternal deaths and show that Pakistan can beat all of them before India. He said "let both countries fight to see who would eradicate poverty first. I want to tell the youth of Pakistan, let's have a war on ending unemployment. I want to call out to the children in Pakistan, let's declare war on illiteracy. Let's see who wins. Let's declare war on infant mortality and maternal deaths." The...