ISLAMABAD Dec 25 (TNS): The mother and wife of convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav have arrived at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) in Islamabad from Dubai via Emirates flight EK612 to meet the Indian spy, meeting to be held shortly.
The family will be taken to the Foreign Office building, located at the federal capital’s red zone area, amid stringent security measures. The wife and mother of Jadhav will return to India after meeting him, sources privy to development informed.
The security has been beefed up at the red zone of federal capital.
During the scheduled meeting, Jadhav’s family will also be accompanied by Indian Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh.
Pakistan has offered media coverage of the meeting and expressed its consent to issue passes to the journalists of both countries.
However, it has been learnt that Indian authorities have asked the Jadhav family to restrain from talking with media in the two countries before and after the meeting with Jadhav.
The Indian authorities have also barred its local media to accompany the family despite Pakistan’s offer to give visas to media.
Back in November, Pakistan offered India a meeting between Jadhav and his wife on humanitarian grounds but India, in its reply asked Pakistan to allow Jadhav’s mother to travel with his wife and a diplomat should accompany the two during the meeting.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s foreign office spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal confirmed that the visa applications of Indian spy’s mother and wife were received for their scheduled visit on humanitarian grounds.
“Visa applications of mother and wife of Commander Jadhav received for their visit on humanitarian grounds. Being processed,” he tweeted.
Pakistani security agencies on March 24, 2016, apprehended Kulbhushan Sundir Jadhav alias Hossein Mubarak Patel, an ‘on-duty RAW agent’, from Balochistan. The suspect was said to be an officer of the Indian navy working for the spy agency to destabilize Pakistan.
The operative had contacts with banned organizations and was working on plans to break Karachi and Balochistan away from Pakistan and to sabotage the billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
On March 25, a day after the arrest, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs claimed that the Indian man arrested from Balochistan has no connection with the government, however, admitted that Kulbhushan Jadhav was a former officer of the Indian navy.
On April 10, COAS, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed his death sentence awarded by Field General Court Martial (FGCM).
