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But Mr Singh and the leaders of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka did at least agree that things could change: SAARC, they agreed, would embark on a "decade of implementation".There are reasons to hope that SAARC can slough off its inertia.

Take terrorism, for example: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have all, at various times, exported it to India, so South Asia's biggest country tends to suppose that its problem, in fact, is its neighbours.This goes a long way to explaining why SAARC has spectacularly failed in its main task: promoting regional economic integration.

By one estimate, climate change will cause a 30-40% drop in India's agricultural output by 2080.Rather belatedly, SAARC has noticed the problem.

The biggest step that SAARC has taken in this respect, a regional free-trade area, involving sharp cuts in customs tariffs, is due to come into force on January 1st.

But after the recent violence, and the bad blood it has stirred, this seemed unusually apt or, given how ineffectual SAARC is, tragic.On July 26th at least 51 people were killed and 200 wounded by 19 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, the biggest city of India's prosperous, western state of Gujarat.

They were expected there for the annual shindig of South Asia's regional co-operation club, SAARC.

India has a "SAARC-minus-one" strategy of integrating South Asia's economies over the next decade, working with the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation but isolating Pakistan.

India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Bhutan all said they would pull out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARCC) meeting following a collapse in relations between Pakistan and India, the subcontinent's nuclear-armed rivals.

Musharraf said that he has conveyed two options to New Delhi: either PM Singh comes to Pakistan before April to sign an agreement or the two hold a signing ceremony at the SAARC Ministerial.

Musharraf appreciated Singh's flexibility, relating Singh's personal invitation for the President to attend the SAARC Ministerial in New Delhi in April.

Sharif, who won elections last year to become Pakistan's prime minister for the third time, is among eight leaders of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation SAARCC) invited to attend Modi's swearing in next Monday.