New Delhi, Dec. 20 (TNS): Pakistan issued visa to convicted Indian terrorist Kulbhushan Jadhav’s family, Indian media reported on Wednesday.
Pakistan FO spokesman also confirmed the development.
“Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi issued the visas to the mother and wife of Commander Jadhav to visit Islamabad to meet him, today,” Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal tweeted on Wednesday evening.
Jadhav alias, Hussain Mubarak Patel, a serving Commander of the Indian Navy, who was working with India’s premier intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), was apprehended by law enforcement agencies on March 3, 2016 after he illegally crossed over into Pakistan.
He confessed before a magistrate and the court that he was tasked by RAW to plan, coordinate and organise espionage, terrorist and sabotage activities aimed at destabilising and waging war against Pakistan.
Jadhav was sentenced to death earlier this year; however, the International Court of Justice ordered a stay in his execution.
New Delhi has repeatedly sought access to the convicted spy but Islamabad denied the permission on the ground that consular access in cases related to spies was not applicable.
