Kathmandu, Aug. 21 : Having ruled out meeting Pakistan on the sidelines of the Saarc foreign ministers' meet, India today underlined its commitment to the grouping's smooth progress with exclusive tête-à-têtes with three of its other South Asian neighbours. Foreign minister Yashwant Sinha met his counterparts from Maldives, Bhutan and Bangladesh this afternoon soon after the first day's session of the ministerial meet ended. At all the meetings, he emphasised Delhi was committed to ensure that 'the complications' in its relations with Islamabad do not cast their shadow on the regional forum. Hours before, however, India had worked closely with Pakistan and the other members in suggesting ways to strengthen the existing Saarc convention on terrorism. Pakistan foreign minister Inamul Haq proposed that legal experts should aid senior officials of Saarc countries to improve on the existing laws on terrorism and draw up the agenda for a ministerial meeting on the subject at a later date. India was one of the first countries to support the proposal while emphasising that the Saarc convention should be improved in a manner compatible with the UN convention on terrorism and recent changes brought about in existing laws in the West. It stressed that South Asian nations should also give due importance to the financing of terrorist outfits and pointed out the need to break the nexus between terrorism and drug trafficking. Nepal health minister Sharad Singh Bhandari, the chairman of the Saarc council of ministers, argued that the growing menace of terrorism had added new problems to the region and said the Saarc convention on terrorism should be implemented as soon as possible by all the member nations. Apart from terrorism, stress was laid on poverty alleviation programmes, welfare of girl children and steps to check trafficking in women. The meeting also agreed on completing the framework for the South Asian free trade area by the year-end. Sinha's first bilateral meeting today was with his counterpart from Maldives, Fathulla Jameel. This was their first interaction.