Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting shouted at his mother.
The video begins with Jadhav thanking the Indian and Pakistani governments for arranging a meeting with his mother and wife. “My mother was very happy to see me but I saw fear in her eyes and my wife's. After the meeting, the Indian diplomat shouted at my mother as if she is an alien,” he says.
“I want to tell the Indian public, government and media that I am a commissioned officer in the Indian Navy. Why are you lying about my working for an intelligence agency” he says.
Jadhav was arrested in March 2016 from the restive Balochistan province near the Iranian border. He was tried in a military court and sentenced to death for spying and terrorism. His appeal against his sentence is pending before Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa.
India approached the International Court of Justice and the court stayed the execution in May last year.
On December 25 last, the mother and the wife of Jhadav met him in Islamabad. Pakistan termed it a humanitarian gesture and not a consular access.
India claimed that Pakistani authorities mistreated Jadhav’s family by taking off their shoes and jewellery, including the mangal sutra. Pakistan termed it security measures and claimed that there was something suspicious in the shoes of Jadhav’s wife, which is being examined.
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