‘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.
Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Butt urges result-oriented, sustained talks on Kashmir
February 07, 2021
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior Hurriyat leader Professor Abdul Ghani Butt has stressed the need for resolving the Kashmir dispute through result-oriented and sustained dialogue process between Pakistan and India in the interest of humanity.
Addressing people during his visit to Sopore on Sunday, he said, the talks are the only way to resolve the long-pending dispute, which is a nuclear flashpoint between the two South Asian countries. He urged the world to support peace initiative of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to avert a confrontation between the nuclear-armed Pakistan and India. He hoped that the Kashmirs’ sacrifices would soon be rewarded in the form of freedom.