Pakistan\u2019s envoy to the US has dismissed a scathing letter sent to him by Abdul Basit, the former ambassador in New Delhi, and said it was \u201crude and uncalled for\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to the US, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, on Wednesday dismissed a scathing letter written to him by Abdul Basit, the former envoy to India, describing it as \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201crude and uncalled for\u201d.<\/p>\n
Basit, in his letter dated July 5, had described Chaudhry as Pakistan\u2019s \u201cworst foreign secretary ever\u201d and criticised his tenure for several foreign policy lapses. He also called for Chaudhry\u2019s immediate removal from the post in Washington.<\/p>\n
Chaudhry, who has not publicly spoken on Basit\u2019s letter, gave his response in an email sent to Pakistani journalists, Dawn reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe letter is too rude and uncalled for. He wrongly thinks that he could not reach to the post of FS because of me. He has since retired,\u201d he wrote, referring to Basit\u2019s missive that has been widely shared on social media since Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have served my country to the best of my abilities. Some of us like Basit fail to realise that life is a combination of human endeavour and fate. We have to accept in humility what life gives us and then thank the Creator for that. Jealousy has no remedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chaudhry said many colleagues had expressed their support for him after Basit\u2019s letter became public. He also expressed a \u201csense of disappointment\u201d at being targeted in this manner.<\/p>\n
A statement issued by the Association of Former Ambassadors said Basit\u2019s letter was \u201cprompted by personal differences between two officers of the Foreign Service\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe language and tone of the letter was upsetting and the members were of the view that it should not have been written or made public,\u201d the former envoys said.<\/p>\n
They also said the feud would only serve to \u201cadd to the difficulties of the Foreign Office, which is faced with so many challenges in the region and globally\u201d.<\/p>\n
Basit, who was passed over twice for the post of foreign secretary, took early retirement after serving as the envoy to India for three years. In 2013, he was pipped to the post by Chaudhry, who was named Pakistan\u2019s envoy to the US earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan\u2019s envoy to the US has dismissed a scathing letter sent to him by Abdul Basit, the former ambassador in New Delhi, and said it was \u201crude and uncalled for\u201d. Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to the US, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, on Wednesday dismissed a scathing letter written to him by Abdul Basit, the former envoy to India, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}