Abdul Basit (diplomat)

Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India. He was appointed to his position in 2014 and was based at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi.[2] Previously, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Germany from May 2012 to March 2014.[2] During his career, he has been posted at Moscow, New York, Sana'a, Geneva and London.[2]

Abdul Basit
In office
2014 – August, 2017
Preceded bySalman Bashir[1]

Controversies

Abdul Basit was mocked by Porn star Johnny Sins as Basit had shared photograph from movie of Sins mistaking him as Kashmiri protester. [3][4][5]

gollark: I finally brought my website back up!
gollark: I don't think so, unless you store the native ones before overwriting them.
gollark: I use milo.
gollark: That would just match AAAAAAs.
gollark: Won't work.

References
  1. Menon, Meena (17 February 2014). "Abdul Basit new Pakistan High Commissioner to India". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  2. "High Commissioner". High Commission of Pakistan, New Delhi. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  3. "Porn star Johnny Sins mocks ex-Pak envoy Abdul Basit, confirms his 'vision is fine'". www.aninews.in. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  4. "Adult film star thanks ex-Pak envoy Abdul Basit for new followers, leaves netizens in splits". The Indian Express. 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  5. "Porn Star's "Shout Out" To Ex-Pak Envoy To India After Twitter Gaffe". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Salman Bashir		 Pakistan High Commissioner to India
2014–2017		 Succeeded by
Sohail Mahmood
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