Review Jadhav Sentence, Grant Consular Access, ICJ Tells Pak.

World court rejects claim that the Vienna Convention doesn’t apply in a ‘spy case’

- Suhasini Haidar

In a major verdict that accepted India’s plea that former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav’s trial under espionage and terror charges in Pakistan violated international law, the International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Pakistan should “review and reconsider” his conviction and death sentence. The court, based at The Hague in the Netherlands, also ruled that Pakistan should give the Indian government consular access to Mr. Jadhav, something Pakistan has failed to do in the three years since his arrest and to stay the execution of his sentence, pending the review process.