ISLAMABAD: India has accepted Pakistan's offer for consular access to Regent Kulbhushan Yadav. Indian diplomats will meet Kulbhushan shortly. The Foreign Office has made all arrangements. According to media reports, in the light of the decision of the International Court of Justice, Pakistan has allowed the Indian spy to meet top Indian diplomats for the second time.
It has been reported that India has accepted Pakistan's offer to meet Kulbhushan Yadav. Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav has been given consular access for the second time. Earlier, he was reunited with his family. Top Indian diplomats are at the Foreign Office to meet Yadav, who will meet him shortly.
All arrangements for the meeting have been completed. It may be recalled that the federal government had issued an ordinance on May 20. Under which Kulbhushan Yadav was given the right to file an appeal against the sentence in the Islamabad High Court within 60 days. Along with this, Pakistan had also offered consular access to India. But India had not accepted this offer earlier but has accepted the offer. This whole process is being done in the light of the decision of the International Court of Justice.
Opposition leaders, on the other hand, accused the government of protesting the ordinance against the military court's decision. This ordinance is to facilitate agent Kulbhushan Yadav. An ordinance was issued in the dark of night, an ordinance on International Court of Justice review and reconsideration was issued on 20 May.
According to the ordinance, a foreign national, or a person on a mission, can file a petition for review or reconsideration of a military court's decision in the High Court within 60 days of the ordinance's issuance. It may be recalled that on July 8, Additional Attorney General Ahmed Irfan had said that Kulbhushan Yadav, an agent of India's intelligence agency RAW, who was arrested and convicted in Pakistan, had refused to file a review appeal against his sentence. Instead he has decided to wait for an answer to his pending mercy petition. He had said that one of the key points in the decision of the case won by Pakistan in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was that Kulbhushan Yadav was entitled to his rights under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Ahmed Irfan had said that the decision also included the point that the officers of the Indian Consulate should be allowed to talk to Kulbhushan Yadav and consular access so that they could meet him and legalize for him. Arrange representation. He said the decision called for all possible steps to be taken for effective review of the Clubbhushan case, including the implementation of legislation if necessary, and until effective review and reconsideration is completed. The Additional Attorney General had said that the government of Pakistan has taken several steps to implement the decision of the International Court of Justice. Informing about the important steps taken by the government of Pakistan, the Additional Attorney General said that immediately after the ICJ decision, Kulbhushan Yadav was informed about his right of consular access under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention. That Pakistan suspended the sentence of RAW agent Commander Kulbhushan Yadav for review and reconsideration and for review and reconsideration Pakistan reviewed its existing laws to properly review and reconsider under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention. To be done. The Additional Attorney General said that although Pakistan's law provides for the right to review, to ensure proper implementation of the International Court of Justice's decision, Pakistan on May 28 passed the 'International Court of Justice Review and Reconciliation Ordinance 2020'. Under this Ordinance, an appeal for reconsideration and reconsideration can be filed in the Islamabad High Court through a petition within 60 days. He further said that under Section 20 of the Ordinance, Kulbhushan Yadav can file a review appeal in person, through a representative with legal authority or through a consular official of the Indian High Commission, the Additional Attorney General said. He was offered a review of his sentence and an appeal for reconsideration, and Pakistan offered to arrange legal representation for the RAW agent. He said that Kulbhushan Yadav, using his legal right, refused to file an appeal for review and reconsideration of the sentence and instead chose to wait for a response to the pending mercy petition. Pakistan has repeatedly invited the Indian High Commission to reconsider and reconsider the sentence of Kulbhushan Yadav.
