The meeting of the Home Ministers of the SAARC countries has been postponed "on the request of a member country".

The meeting was scheduled to be held in Islamabad from 24th to 27th November.

"The Third Meeting of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers and its preceding Meetings which were scheduled to be held on 24th -27th November 2008 in Islamabad have been postponed on the request of a member country," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman of Pakistan.

The meeting will be rescheduled in the first quarter of 2009, he added.