Pakistan claims it didn’t attempt to link Kulbhushan Jadhav case with another Indian prisoner

Pakistan on December 4 claimed that it didn’t make an attempt to link the Kulbhushan Jadhav case with that of another Indian prisoner.

The remarks of the Foreign Office (FO) got here a day after Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava, at a media briefing in New Delhi, stated that Pakistan is making an attempt to link the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav with another prisoner’s case, and asserted that Pakistan has failed to reply on core points pertaining to the case.

After Pakistani media stories claimed that the counsel for the Indian High Commission, Shahnawaz Noon, had informed the Islamabad High Court that Deputy Indian High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia needs to clarify India’s stance over appointment of a lawyer for death-row prisoner Jadhav, New Delhi stated Noon had made the remarks with none authorisation and seems to have acted beneath stress from the Pakistani institution.

Giving a background to the opposite case, Mr. Srivastava stated in a routine consular follow, Mr. Noon was chosen by the Indian High Commission to seem within the case for launch and repatriation of Indian prisoner Mohammad Ismail, who has accomplished his sentence however continues to be in jail in Pakistan.

“However, during proceedings of the case regarding Ismail, Pakistan Attorney General raised the matter pertaining to Jadhav, though the two cases are not connected in any way,” he stated.

“Mr. Noon is reported to have made those statements which are not true and are in contravention of our stand in the case. He appears to have acted under pressure from the Pakistani establishment to make such statements for which he has no authorisation,” Mr. Srivastava stated.

Mr. Noon has misrepresented the place of the Indian High Commission, the MEA spokesperson stated, including that he was clearly informed by the Indian High Commission that he had no authority to signify both the federal government of India or Jadhav.

The Indian mission in Islamabad has written to Mr. Noon reiterating that he has no authority to signify Jadhav and has no foundation to counsel that the Indian Charge d’Affaires Mr. Ahluwalia would seem within the court docket.

Pakistan has failed to reply on core points pertaining to the case, together with provision of all paperwork, offering unimpeded, unhindered and unconditional consular entry to Jadhav and that is required to present the idea for an efficient evaluate and reconsideration of the case as ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Srivastava stated.

Reacting to the MEA’s remarks, the FO right here termed them as incorrect and deceptive assertions within the Jadhav case.

It stated that in the course of the course of the proceedings, to present the discrepancy in India’s place, the Attorney-General for Pakistan cited the case of Ismail the place the Indian High Commission had instructed Mr. Noon as its lawyer.

The FO stated that no attempt was made to link the Jadhav case with that of another Indian prisoner as they’re and stay completely distinct.

Pakistan has already supplied consular entry to the Indian High Commission twice and has taken all needed steps for efficient evaluate and reconsideration within the case, the FO stated, including that the supply for a 3rd consular entry remains to be there.

Fifty-year-old retired Indian Navy officer Jadhav was sentenced to demise by a Pakistani navy court docket on costs of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.

In 2017, India approached the ICJ towards Pakistan for denial of consular entry to Jadhav and difficult the demise sentence handed to him by a navy court docket.

The Hague-based ICJ dominated in July 2019 that Pakistan should undertake an “effective review and reconsideration” of the conviction and sentence of Jadhav and likewise to grant consular entry to India with out additional delay.

A Pakistani court docket was knowledgeable on October 6 that India failed to appoint a lawyer to signify Jadhav within the case of the evaluate of his demise sentence by a navy court docket on this nation.

Earlier, Pakistan had once more rejected India’s demand that an Indian lawyer or a Queen’s counsel ought to be appointed for Jadhav to guarantee a free and truthful trial within the case.

India has slammed Pakistan for adopting a “farcical” method in denying accessible authorized treatments to Jadhav towards his demise sentence in contravention of the ICJ order.