Foreign secretaries from south asian cou

Foreign secretaries from south asian countries (From Left) Salman Bashir (Pakistan), Yeshey Dorji (Bhutan), Touhid Hossain (Bangladesh), Sheel Kant Sharma (SAARC secretary general), Shiv Shankar Menon (India), Palitha Kohana (Sri Lanka), Mohammad Kabir Farahi (Afghanistan) and Gyan Chandra Acharya (Nepal) pose for a group picture during their annual meetings in Colombo on July 29, 2008. Colombo is hosting heads of state from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries for their annual two-day meetings from August 2. AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)