Pakistan provides second consular access to Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav

(Karachi) Pakistan on Thursday provided second consular access to Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav on New Delhi's request, media has reported.

Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said first consular access under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963 was earlier provided by Pakistan on second September last year.

She said in a meeting in December 2017, the mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav were also allowed to meet the Indian spy. She pointed out, "Two consular officers of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad were provided consular access to Jadhav."

Aisha highlighted that Indian spy Jadhav has been in Pakistan's custody following his arrest in March 2016 from Balochistan in a counter-intelligence operation.

She said during investigation, commander Jadhav confessed to his involvement in terrorist activities inside Pakistan that resulted in loss of many precious human lives.

She mentioned that Jadhav also made important revelations about RAW’s role in sponsoring state terrorism in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that consular access was given according to the terms agreed upon. "India's ill intentions have come to light. They didn't want consular access. [Jhadav] kept asking the Indian diplomats to talk to him and they left."

"If Indian diplomats didn't want to talk to Jadhav, why did they ask for consular access," he questioned.

"They had objected to the glass that had been placed in the middle so we removed it. They had also objected to audio and video recordings so that was also not done. We fulfilled all their requests, but still they left." he said.

The consular access was sought days after Pakistan invited India to pursue the Jadhav case in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in line with the judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

In July last year, the ICJ had asked Pakistan for an "effective review and reconsideration of the conviction and sentence of Jadhav” so as to ensure that full weight was given to the effect of the violation of the rights set forth in Article 36, Paragraph 1, of the Vienna Convention and guarantee that the violation and the possible prejudice caused by the violation were fully examined.