In May 2013 the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) organized a regional conference on “Afghanistan in SAARC: Towards Deeper Engagement” in Kathmandu. The program fulfilled a long-felt need to identify possibilities and hurdles for a deeper engagement of Afghanistan into the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It was conceived so as to initiate scholarly debate over a possible regional solution for Afghanistan beyond 2014. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the most important findings of the conference.