India will attend the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation at Islamabad in January next year, Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said on Thursday.

The SAARC cannot hold a summit unless all the seven leaders are present.

"The standing committee has reached a consensus to hold the summit from January 4 to 6,"' Sibal said after a meeting of the SAARC foreign secretaries meet in Kathmandu.

Agencies