Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Friday called for the revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, during his address at the United Nations General Assembly.

Established in 1985, SAARC is an intergovernmental organisation of eight South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan.

However, the grouping has been inactive for almost a decade because of tensions between India and Pakistan. Its last biennial summit was in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2014.

The 2016 summit was scheduled to be held in Islamabad but was cancelled after India withdrew following the Uri terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan had also declined to participate.

On Friday, Yunus said in hi

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