Abdul Basit is without doubt the most negative and undiplomatic Pakistan High Commissioner to India that I can recall in my Foreign Service career. He acknowledges in the introduction that ‘Hostility’ is not a memoir but an account of Indo-Pakistan relations during his tenure. In fact, ‘Hostility’ is an acknowledgment of his deep-rooted angst against India and his frustration with an alarmed Pakistani establishment that wished to rein him in.