*ISLAMABAD – Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia has beengranted consular access to Indian spy Kulbushan Jadhav in Islamabad today(Monday). The meeting is currently under way.*
Pakistan is granting India consular access as part of its implementation ofthe International Court of Justice’s July 17 verdict. It asked Pakistan toreview the spy’s death sentence and grant India consular access by the“means of its own choosing”.
Jadhav, a commander of the Indian Navy associated with the country’s spyagency Research and Analysis Wing, was arrested on March 3, 2016, fromBalochistan on allegations of espionage and terrorism.
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He was subsequently sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court afterhe confessed to his involvement in terrorist plots. But India challengedhis sentence in the ICJ.
