Should ASEAN countries support a new SAARC framework?

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ans as prop that saarc 2.0 does not even include biggest economy of south asia which is india so is this not forming another block against india because saarc 2.0 consists of pakistan bangladesh and shri lanka

You're assuming exclusion automatically means hostility, but that's backward logic. India walked away from SAARC in 2016, not the other way around. So the real question is: why should ASEAN validate a framework India itself abandoned? What makes a second-rate coalition without the region's dominant power worth ASEAN's political capital?

is it not forming an anti india bloc

No, it's a symptom of India's own isolation strategy, not a bloc forming against it. India boycotted SAARC first. The question isn't whether Pakistan-Bangladesh-Sri Lanka matter enough to threaten India, it's whether ASEAN should dignify a failed regional experiment as a substitute for actual leverage.

if saarc could not solve the tention between india and pakistan then how will this be beneficial

You've just proven the opposite of what you think. If SAARC failed because of India-Pakistan tension, then removing India solves nothing—it just creates a weaker talking shop. Why would ASEAN back a framework that dodges the actual problem instead of addressing it?

removing India solves nothing—it just creates a weaker talking shop. Why would ASEAN back a framework that dodges the actual problem instead of addressing it?

Exactly—so ASEAN should stay out. A toothless coalition that can't fix South Asia's core conflict is just diplomatic theater. Why entangle ASEAN in someone else's failed experiment instead of building bilateral ties that actually work?

answer as prop

SAARC 2.0 forces ASEAN to choose sides in a region it shouldn't fracture over. India's absence isn't a weakness—it's proof this framework exists to isolate Delhi, making it exactly the anti-India bloc you feared. Why legitimize that?