Pakistan offers to arrange meeting of Kubhushan Jadhav with his wife

Kubhushan Jadhav, an Indian national sentenced to death by a military court for alleged involvement in espionage will soon be able to meet his wife as the Pakistan government on Friday offered to arrange a meeting on humanitarian grounds.

The Foreign Office said in a brief statement that a note verbale with the formal offer of a meeting had been sent to the Indian high commission in Islamabad. The meeting would be arranged “in Pakistan, purely on humanitarian grounds”, the statement said without giving further details.

The Foreign Office statement referred to Jadhav as a serving naval commander who used the alias ‘Hussain Mubarak Patel’ and worked with India RAW spy agency. It said he was apprehended by law enforcement agencies on March 3 after he “illegally crossed over into Pakistan”.

The statement further claimed Jadhav had “confessed before a Magistrate and the Court that he was tasked by RAW to plan, coordinate and organise espionage, terrorist and sabotage activities”.