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)
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