India hits out at Pak on Jadhav

New Delhi: India on Thursday said Pakistan had refused to hand over the documents, pertaining to the case of imprisoned former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, to a Pakistani lawyer hired by the Indian High Commission and that New Delhi therefore could not file a review petition on July 18 in the Pakistani courts against the verdict of a Pakistani military Court that had on April 10, 2017, sentenced Jadhav to death on charges of “espionage and sabotage”.

Amid media reports indicating that China seemed to be going back on its commitment to pull back its troops in the Ladakh sector, India on Thursday said it “expected” China to “sincerely work” with it “for complete disengagement and de-escalation.

New Delhi reiterated it would “not accept any unilateral attempts to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)”.

It also said another meeting of the Working Mechanism Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs “is also expected to be scheduled soon”.

MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, “I have made clear the position of the government as regards the situation along the LAC along IndiaChina border areas through a number of statements in the last several weeks. In my statement of June 26, I had noted that the conduct of Chinese forces this year, including the deployment of large body of troops and changes in behaviour, accompanied by unjustified and untenable claims, has been in complete disregard of all the mutual agreements.”

Meanwhile, India said Pakistan had refused to hand over the documents

THE MEA SAID another meeting of the Working Mechanism Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs ‘is also expected to be scheduled soon’