Sohail Mahmood, currently Pakistan’s envoy to Turkey, has already been named the next high commissioner to India. Basit was posted as the high commissioner to India in 2014. In August 2014, India called off talks between the foreign secretaries after Basit met Kashmiri separatist leaders. He then had a change of heart and there was even talk that he would be posted as the high commissioner to Britain. This was the second time Basit was passed over for the post of foreign secretary.

Source: Hindustan Times July 25, 2017 14:04 UTC