Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Pakistan Attorney General to lead team to ICJ meet on June 8

Pakistan’s Attorney-General Ashtar Ausaf Ali will lead a team to the International Court of Justice at The Hague on June 8 for a meeting of “agents” from India and Pakistan with the court’s president to discuss the future proceedings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case.

The decision to send the attorney general was taken at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security yesterday to discuss Pakistan’s strategy in the case, Dawn reported.

National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq chaired the meeting.

During the meeting of “agents”, the dates for subsequent hearings and submission of documents related to the case India has brought against Pakistan over the death sentence given to Indian national Jadhav following a “secret” trial will be discussed, the report said.

Pakistan is also likely to indicate its intention to nominate an ad-hoc judge for the case.

The ICJ statutes provide for a state party to a case, which does not have a judge of its nationality on the bench, to choose a person to sit as an ad-hoc judge in that case.

The parliamentary committee took up the issue after India was granted provisional measures by the ICJ on May 18 restraining Pakistan from executing Jadhav, 46, who had been convicted of espionage …read more