New Delhi, Nov 9: Kashmir has remained in the global spotlight for seven decades. Most of that narrative has been bloody, controversial and run by Pakistan. With the guns doing most of the talking, Kashmiris themselves had little to say all .
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.