Question

Which of the following countries is not a member of SAARC?
(A) Pakistan
(B) India
(C) China
(D) Sri Lanka

Answer 1

Hint: SAARC was established by seven South Asian states on December 8, 1985. An important provincial enterprise is seized by the seven South Asian states to develop cooperation through multilateral normal.

Complete answer:
The full form of SAARC is South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Its central goal is to motivate communal self-reliance, faith and awareness between the members. Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka are the seven founding countries of SAARC. At the 13th annual conference clenched in 2005, Afghanistan came to be the freshest member. The headquarter and secretariat are positioned at Kathmandu, Nepal.
The nine viewers to SAARC at present are - China, Australia, the European Union, Iran, the Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Japan, Mauritius and the United States of America. The Technical bodies of the Association are SDF South Asian University, South Asian Regional Standards Organization and SAARC Arbitration Council. The recent Secretary-General of SAARC is H.E. Esala Ruwan Weerakoon of Sri Lanka, determined his office on March 01, 2020.
In 2001, the SAARC partners approved a treaty called SAFTA, South Asian Free Trade; to facilitate trade. According to this treaty, a free Trade Zone is to be constructed for the whole of South Asia. Since its beginning, SAARC has evolved a forum for facilitating economic partnership among South Asian countries. As the resulting International Economic Order has been regulating against the fundamental attention of the poor and expanding countries, SAARC has given a "collective economic security system" by commencing SAPTA and SAFTA.

Thus, option (C) is correct.

Note: The full form of SAPTA is given as SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement whose major goal is to facilitate and conserve reciprocal trade and economic alliance among the member states of SAARC through the trade of trade settlements.