@article {article1107,
    title       = {SAARC: Misplaced idea of Pak's 'isolation'},
    author      = {Vappala Balachandran},
    journal     = {Foundation of The Billion Press},
    date     = 2016-11-16,
    year     = 2016,
    url     = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/international/saarc-misplaced-idea-paks-isolation-1107,
	Abstract 			= {In a dynamic world, ideas of isolation may not be the best way to either build ties or contain threats. Instead, there is a case that can be made out that India in itself could be poorer because it will lose a convenient multilateral forum to defuse tensions as has been often done in the past.}
  }