Jadhav’s family being accompanied by Indian Deputy HC JP Singh and three Indian foreign ministry officials
The mother and wife of convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav have concluded their meeting at Pakistan’s Foreign Office Islamabad.
Jadhav family reached Islamabad through Benazir Bhutto International Airport from Dubai via Emirates flight EK612 to meet the Indian convicted spy.
According to Pakistani media, they are accompanied by Indian Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh and three Indian foreign ministry officials.
In addition to the Indian envoy, a couple of foreign ministry officials will also be present during the meeting, which is expected to last around 30 minutes.
The family has been taken to the Foreign Office building, located at the federal capital’s red zone area, amid stringent security measures.
After meeting him at the Foreign Office, Jadhav’s family will head back to the Indian High Commission before returning to India via Oman, sources said.
In a tweet, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal shared a photo of the mother and wife of Jadhav sitting in the Foreign Office.
The mother and wife of Commander Jadhav sitting comfortably in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pakistan . We honour our commitments pic.twitter.com/hILiMyp7Zl
— Dr Mohammad Faisal (@ForeignOfficePk) December 25, 2017
In the most recent of his tweet, Dr Mohammad Faisal Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson shared,
Meeting between Commander Kulbushan Jhadev & his family in progress pic.twitter.com/THG925V1fO
— Dr Mohammad Faisal (@ForeignOfficePk) December 25, 2017
In a tweet earlier today, the FO spokesperson said that Pakistan permitted the meeting as a humanitarian gesture, on the birthday of the Father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Pakistani security agencies on March 24, 2016, apprehended Kulbhushan Sundir Jadhav alias Hossein Mubarak Patel, an ‘on-duty RAW agent’, from Balochistan. The suspect was said to be an officer of the Indian navy working for the spy agency to destabilize Pakistan.
The operative had contacts with banned organizations and was working on plans to break Karachi and Balochistan away from Pakistan and to sabotage the billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
The incarcerated RAW agent, in his video statement, confessed to involvement in sabotage and espionage inside Pakistan, which has also been the crux of Islamabad’s case in the ICJ.