Pakistan says Indian spy Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav refused to challenge his conviction, opting instead to pursue a mercy petition
Pakistan has invited India to file a review against a military court's death sentence last year on Indian navy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav on charges of espionage and sabotage.
He was sentenced to death by a closed Pakistani military tribunal in 2017, and New Delhi later took the matter up with the International Court of Justice.While rejecting most of the remedies sought by New Delhi, which included the annulment of Jadhav's conviction, his release and subsequent return to India, the Hague-based world court in July 2019 had ordered Islamabad to 'review' the sentence, and he was later offered the right to appeal.
Indian officials maintain Jadhav retired from the navy in 2001 and was running a logistics business in Iran, where he was kidnapped and brought to Pakistan and forced to confess. Fake name, real passport Islamabad says the abduction was the work of “foreign intelligence agencies” – a clear reference to India’s Research and Analysis Wing of “kidnapping” of its ex-serviceman.
According to his family, which also insists, Zahir was trapped by “enemy spy agencies”, a person named Mark Thompson had contacted him both via email and telephone for a job interview in Nepal, for which Zahir was also provided with an air ticket.
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