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India is a founding member of SAARC (1985), the primary regional cooperation forum in South Asia. SAARC has been largely paralysed due to India-Pakistan tensions, with the 19th SAARC Summit (scheduled for 2016 in Islamabad) indefinitely postponed. India has shifted focus to sub-regional initiatives like BBIN (Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal) and BIMSTEC as functional alternatives.
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