SAARC Member Countries

SAARC stands for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation; Saarc member countries are Afghanistan Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Country	Office Holder	Leader
Afghanistan	Hamid Karzai	President
Bangladesh	Sheikh Hasina	Prime Minister
Bhutan	Tshering Tobgay	Prime Minister
India	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister
Maldives	Abdulla Yameen	President
Nepal	Sushil Koirala	Prime Minister
Pakistan	Nawaz Sharif	Prime Minister
Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa	President

SAARC Observers Countries
Australia
China
European Union
Japan
Iran
Mauritius
Myanmar
South Korea
United States

No SAARC summits Date Country Host Host leader 1st 7–8 December 1985 Bangladesh Dhaka Ataur Rahman Khan 2nd 16–17 November 1986 India Bangalore Jayanth M Gowda 3rd 2–4 November 1987 Nepal Kathmandu Marich Man Singh Shrestha 4th 29–31 December 1988 Pakistan Islamabad Benazir Bhutto 5th 21–23 November 1990 Maldives Malé Maumoon Abdul Gayoom 6th 21-Dec-91 Sri Lanka Colombo Ranasinghe Premadasa 7th 10–11 April 1993 Bangladesh Dhaka Khaleda Zia 8th 2–4 May 1995 India New Delhi P. V. Narasimha Rao 9th 12–14 May 1997 Maldives Malé Maumoon Abdul Gayoom 10th 29–31 July 1998 Sri Lanka Colombo Chandrika Kumaratunga 11th 4–6 January 2002 Nepal Kathmandu Sher Bahadur Deuba 12th 2–6 January 2004 Pakistan Islamabad Zafarullah Khan Jamali 13th 12–13 November 2005 Bangladesh Dhaka Khaleda Zia 14th 3–4 April 2007 India New Delhi Manmohan Singh 15th 1–3 August 2008 Sri Lanka Colombo Mahinda Rajapaksa 16th 28–29 April 2010 Bhutan Thimphu Jigme Thinley 17th 10–11 November 2011 Maldives Addu Mohammed Nasheed 18th Nov-13 Nepal Kathmandu Khil Raj Regmi