Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother and wife to visit Pak tomorrow
Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife and mother will visit the Indian prisoner facing death row in Pakistan on 25 December. The family will arrive by a commercial flight and leave the same day and will be accompanied by India's Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad JP Singh to the meeting. Reportedly the visit has been permitted in the light of "Islamic traditions and purely humanitarian grounds."
Who is Kulbhushan Jadhav?
Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, 47, is a retired Indian Naval officer from Mumbai who in April this year was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism. Pakistan claimed that it arrested "the Raw agent commander Jadhav alias Hussein Mubarak Patel through a counterintelligence operation in Pak's Balochistan province in March 2016."
India's claim
India denies the Jadhav spy story and claims that Jadhav was kidnapped from Iran where he was in connection with his business.
The story so far
Following the death sentence, India approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in May which then stayed Jadhav's death execution pending the final verdict by it. While no date has been fixed for the case to resume in the ICJ, Pak had repeatedly denied India consular access to Jadhav on the grounds that it was not applicable in espionage related cases.
