Correct Option: E

The Seventeenth Summit was held from 10-11 of November 2011 in Addu City, Maldives. The Meeting was opened by the outgoing Chair of SAARC, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Bhutan, H. E. Lyonchhen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley. Mohamed Nasheed was elected as the Chairperson of the 17th SAARC Summit. In his inaugural address President Nasheed highlighted three areas of cooperation in which progress should be made; trade, transport and economic integration; security issues such piracy and climate change; and good governance. President also called on the Member States to establish a commisesion to address issues of gender inequalities in South Asia.
Note : Pakistan scheduled to host the 19th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Islamabad on 15 TO 16 November 2016. India including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives did not attend SAARC SUMMIT due to 2016 Uri attack. Pakistan postponed the SAARC summit and announced that new dates would be released soon, but it did not happen. The Secretariat of this organization is located in theKathmandu which is capital of Nepal. Its member states include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.