KATHMANDU: Pakistan has proposed the name of new SAARC Secretary General during the ongoing 37th Foreign Ministerial Meeting of SAARC countries in Pokhara today.

Satraj Aziz, Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan on Foreign Affairs, proposed Amjad Hussain B. Sial as new Secretary General of the eight-member regional bloc, according to a Foreign Ministry official.

If Sial's name is confirmed, he will succeed incumbent Secretary General from Nepal, Arjun Bahadur Thapa, whose three years' tenure is being completed in February 2017.

A career diplomat of Pakistan, Sial had served as a Director of Pakistan in the SAARC Secretariat from 2003 to 2006.