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Islamabad, Jan 28: Pakistan said on Thursday that India should avail its offer for consular access to death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav and “cooperate” to implement the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about effective review of his case.
Fifty-year-old retired Indian Navy officer Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017. Weeks later, India approached the ICJ against Pakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav and challenging the death sentence handed to him.
The Hague-based ICJ ruled in July 2019 that Pakistan must undertake an “effective review and reconsideration” of the conviction and…