‘Hostility’: What the book by Pakistan’s ambassador to India during the early Modi years reveals
‘Hostility’: What the book by Pakistan’s ambassador to India during the early Modi years reveals
An excerpt from ‘Hostility: A Diplomat’s Diary on Pakistan India Relations’, by Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. Author Abdul Basit.
Earlier on 16 March, I quietly went to see an indefatigable Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, at his modest Delhi flat. He was unwell. I also thought to personally invite him to the Pakistan Day reception to be held on 2 April. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. Here was a man who was totally committed to Pakistan and the cause of Kashmir. This was my first meeting with him as High Commissioner. I had met him once earlier at the high commission when he came to see Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir in February 2010.
Salman Bashir, also Pakistan’s former foreign secretary, says Islamabad never recognised Article 370, but Jammu and Kashmir should return to ‘normalcy’.
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