Representatives of 40 countries attend the conference. President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to take part in the annual meeting, penciled in for December 3 and 4 in the Amritsar city of the Punjab state.
Major hotels in the city have been booked for prospective attendees, The Times of India reported. Paramilitary forces and intelligence agents have arrived in the city to boost security.
The initiative is essentially aimed at forging cooperation among regional countries on peace and . . .
