RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office said that Sunday contradicted the claims made by an Indian minister that Pakistan allowed Kulbhushan Jadhav’s wife to meet the arrested RAW agent “under the pressure from both India and the international community”.

“Offer for Commander Jadhav’s wife to meet her husband is purely humanitarian and based on Islamic traditions and jurisprudence,” said Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal in a tweet apparently in response to the Indian Minister of state for defence Subhash Bhamre.

The Foreign Office on Friday said that the Government of Pakistan has decided to arrange a meeting of Commander Jadhav with his wife, in Pakistan, purely on humanitarian grounds.

Jadhav alias, Hussain Mubarak Patel, a serving Commander of the Indian Navy, working with Indian Intelligence Agency/RAW was apprehended by Pakistan law enforcement agencies on March 3, 2016 after he illegally crossed over into Pakistan.

He confessed before a Magistrate and the Court that he was tasked by RAW to plan, coordinate and organize espionage, terrorist and sabotage activities aimed at destabilizing and waging war against Pakistan.

Speaking at a function in PUNE, India, Bhamre claimed saying that “The Indian government has been building continuous pressure on Pakistan ever since the capital punishment was proclaimed on Jadhav. His death sentence has been halted due to the strong pressure from the Indian side. The current move to allow Jadhav’s wife to meet him is a result of that sustained pressure”.