Kulbhushan Jadhav hanging: Pakistan Army, Nawaz Sharif govt to fight together against India at ICJ

Pakistan army and the civilian government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will fight together against India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Kulbhushan Jadhav's hanging.

Updated: May 22, 2017 11:00 AM IST

By Aadil Ikram Zaki Iqbal

Kulbhushan Jadhav hanging: Pakistan Army, Nawaz Sharif govt to fight together against India at ICJ
Kulbhushan Jadhav - File Photo

New Delhi, May 22: Pakistan army and the civilian government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will fight together against India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Kulbhushan Jadhav’s hanging. According to a Lahore-based English daily The Nation, Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that the civilian government and the Pakistan Army would jointly fight the Jadhav case at the ICJ. On May 18, the ICJ ordered Pakistan to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav until a final decision in the proceedings.

“It is time to be united. We have already suffered much in the past. This trend of causing damage to the national interest in order to protect personal ones should be shunned,” Sardar Ayaz Sadiq was quoted as saying. In defiance, Pakistan’s top foreign policy advisor Sartaj Aziz has said that the International Court of Justice cannot nullify alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death sentence.

Meanwhile, Britain-based lawyer Khawar Qureshi, who represented Pakistan at the International Court of Justice, said India did not win the case. “ICJ will never acquit Jadhav,” Qureshi was quoted saying. Qureshi also said he was hopeful that the ICJ will dismiss Jadhav’s case by the end of this year or early 2018. (ALSO READ: With Pakistan signalling defiance of ICJ order, defence experts fear Kulbhushan Jadhav already dead)

Kulbhushan Jadhav was sentenced to death by the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month for his alleged involvement in espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan. The ICJ on May 9 put a stay on the death sentence given by Pakistan to Kulbhushan Jadhav. Islamabad claimed Jadhav was a serving officer in the Indian Navy and arrested from the Baluchistan province last year.

India out rightly denied the claims, saying Kulbhushan Jadhav was kidnapped from Iran where he was running a business, and adding he was a retired Navy officer. India approached the ICJ, accusing Pakistan of “egregious violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations” in the matter of detention and trial of Jadhav, and sought a stay on his death sentence.

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