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The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)
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It was Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh, who, in 1977, addressed letters to the leaders of the six other South Asian countries calling for a trade alliance between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. This had long been discussed between the seven nations – in fact, in 1947 in New Delhi; in 1950 in Manila, Philippines; and in 1954 in Colombo but there had been no real progress. It took General Zia to push the agenda forward in the late ‘70s.
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