South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) constitutes the developing and underdeveloped countries namely - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The western world hardly gives any attention to the SAARC activities except for Indo-Pak interactions. India and Pakistan are the two power poles in the South Asian community and all the other countries, including Nepal, fall between them. India has had some bad patches in its diplomatic relation with almost all other SAARC nations so the country is viewed as a bully within this association. Bhutan has no opinion of its own as its security and foreign affairs matters are under the command of Indian government, due to a treaty. Maldives generally tries to remain indifferent. Remaining four countries have many serious issues to be resolved with India, as India at times tries to imitate the American interference policy.
After the advent of democracy in Nepal, the Nepalese politics had been much dependent on the Indian government (as people once truly said, "Rain in Delhi and need of an umbrella in Kathmandu"). Almost all the older generation politicians of Nepal acquired their academic qualifications in India and they got lots of help during their period of revolution. Even after the success of the revolution, those politicians continued getting aid from India so on many occasions they turned blind to national interest as long as it was proving beneficial to the Indian government. The politicians have passed many treaties to India that was not in the best interest of Nepal.

SAARC 2005 was not similar to those of previous years, for Nepal. Now the government was in the hands of the King, one who did not yield quite as easily as his predecessors. There were lots of protests that the King should not represent Nepal in SAARC but the king was used to all the resistance. Then what happened in the SAARC 2005 is history...

India and Pakistan, the two polar forces had agreed on including Afghanistan in SAARC so it was almost sure that Afghanistan was going to be the eighth SAARC nation but Nepal had some other plans. It also proposed to delegate the role of observer to China. Now, how would India agree so easily to invite a nation, which would endanger its power play within SAARC? So it used its veto to dismiss the proposal made by Nepal. Now this is the best part. Nepal responded stating "Proposals regarding Afghanistan and China should be dealt together. Since the Nepalese suggestion has been dismissed, the issue relating Afghanistan would also not be considered this time." This was certainly a shock to India and many other nations. Furthermore, the King in his aggressive speech stated that "War on terrorism" is not just for powerful and economically stronger nations. All the countries in the world should be benefited from it. This argument by the King was appropriately pointed towards India and its foreign policy. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India in his speech said the there should be Zero tolerance when it comes to terrorism. But it sounds rather self-contradictory as Babu Ram and Prachanda, the Maoist heads are hiding in India and Nepal Blog does not believe that they are in Indian without the consent of the Indian government.
Just after a day of SAARC summit, it was in the news that both the proposals regarding Afghanistan and China were accepted and will be further discussed in the upcoming minister lever meeting. In addition, Japan as well has been accepted in the role of observer.