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Pakistan presented Tuesday its second Counter-Memorial to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the conviction of the alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Pakistan 400-page response, a reply to India's latest response April 17, was submitted by India's foreign affairs director, Fareha Bugti, reported Geo News citing sources .
It was prepared by a team of experts headed by the country's Attorney General, says the report.
Pakistan, in its reply, gave detailed replies to India 's arguments before the International Court.
Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017, following which India proposed the ICJ in May of the same year.
India stated that Jadhav was innocent and that he had been kidnapped from Iran where he had left to do his business after the retirement of the Indian Navy.
A bench of 10 members of the ICJ on May 18, 2017 withheld Pakistan from the execution of Jadhav until the case was judged.
In his writings, India in September 2017 accused Pakistan of violating the Vienna Convention by not giving consular access to Jadhav. He had also argued that the Jadhav trial should have been conducted by a civilian court.
The Indian position was rejected by Pakistan in its counter-argument, presented on December 13, 2017.
In its Counter-Memorial, Pakistan had stated that Jadhav was not an ordinary person since He had entered the country with the intention of spying and committing sabotage activities.
Later, in a public relations exercise, Pakistan arranged a meeting between Jadhav and his mother for After the meeting, Islamabad categorically denied that it was "consular access" Even though the Deputy High Commissioner of Indian Affairs was present during the meeting. The mother and wife of Jadhav were harbaded and abused throughout the episode.
Pakistan defended its actions by saying that it had been "open and transparent" throughout the meeting, which required a "full security check" of visitors.
India submitted its second submission to the ICJ in April this year.
Jadhav was reportedly apprehended on March 3, 2016 after illegally crossing the Iranian border into Pakistan, according to Pakistani officials.
– IANS
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