Court: Give ‘another chance’ to find lawyer for Kulbhushan Jadhav
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Thursday directed the government to give India another chance to appoint a lawyer to represent Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former naval officer sentenced to death for alleged involvement in spying, and adjourned the case for a month.
The Islamabad high court, after hearing arguments in the matter, asked attorney general Khalid Javed Khan to inform the government to send the court’s order to India and put off further hearings till October 3.
The direction came after the attorney general informed the larger bench of the high court, comprising chief justice Athar Minallah and justices Aamer Farooq and Miangul Hassan Aurangzaib, that Pakistan government hadn’t received a reply from New Delhi on the matter.
Khan said it appeared the Indian government was not interested in availing the opportunity of legal representation and its “focus is on embarrassing Pakistan”. He said that despite the passage of a month from the time that the
Islamabad high court directed the government to offer a chance of legal representation to New Delhi, no reply was received from the Indian side.
Khan also said Pakistan is continuing the process of implementing the Internation Court of Justice’s (ICJ) judgment but “India is busy obstructing the right to review.”
The Internation Court of Justice asked Pakistan to stay Jadhav’s death sentence and carry out a comprehensive review of his conviction and sentencing by a military court.