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12-09-2017, 08:21 AM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has informed India that the wife and mother of Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav alias Hussain Mubarak Patel, serving Commander of the Indian Navy, will be issued visas for a meeting at the end of this month.
?The visit should happen on 25th December, 2017. A diplomat from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad will be allowed to accompany the visitors. Requisite security would be provided to the visitors,? spokesman at the Foreign Office announced today.
"In what looks like a quid pro quo, India appears to have dropped the Pakistan specific condition of attaching a letter from the Pakistan foreign minister while applying for a medical visa. Indian officials say, "Now common man [Pakistanis] is directly calling Sushma ji on twitter and she is responding with visas.
Jadhav, an undercover RAW officer, is presently on death row after he confessed to carrying out and facilitating acts of espionage and terrorism inside Pakistan. He was captured inside Balochistan.
He was sentenced to death by the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under the Pakistan Army Act.
Earlier in November, the Pakistan Army had allowed Jadhav a meeting only with his wife on purely humanitarian grounds and based on Islamic traditions and jurisprudence.
However, Jadhav?s wife was initially reluctant to travel alone to Pakistan and had requested for her mother-in-law Avantika Jadhav to accompany her.
With India moving the International Court of Justice, which gave a stay for Jadhav?s execution, there was pressure from India and some world capitals to also allow the mother of Jadhav and an Indian official to also be present in the meeting, and complete security should be guaranteed to the visitors.
Pakistan relented and the Foreign Office was conveyed of Rawalpindi?s decision, which in turn informed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi.
There was quick reaction from India on Friday, which accepted Pakistan?s announcement, with Sushma Swaraj , Minister (MEA), tweeting, ?Government of Pakistan has conveyed that they will give visa to the mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav. Pakistan has agreed to facilitate the visit of mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav and assured us of their safety, security and freedom of movement in Pakistan.?
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has written to his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj regarding the provocative ceasefire violations by the Indian army and the recent extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris.
?In 2017, India had violated the Line of Control 1,300 times and as a result, 52 citizens had been killed and 175 had been injured. We also condemn the extra-judicial killings of eight young Kashmiris and destruction of houses by Indian forces,? said the spokesman.
Pakistan has repeatedly raised its concerns about the hegemonic conduct of India, including the unprecedented escalation of ceasefire violations this year by Indian occupation forces at the Working Boundary and LoC in an attempt to deflect the attention of the international community from the continuing Indian atrocities against Kashmiris in Indian Held Kashmir.
He also brushed aside an earlier statement made by CIA Director Mike Pompeo , made a day before the US Secretary of Defense reached Islamabad, warning Pakistan that the US would step in to destroy militant safe havens.
"The statement that came a day before an important visit was unnecessary and contrary to the facts," the spokesperson said, adding that during his visit, Mattis had praised the professional conduct of Pakistan's armed forces.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson noted that incidents of kidnapping of Pakistanis from Afghanistan are increasing. He asked Pakistani citizens in Afghanistan to take caution and register with the Pakistan Embassy on an urgent basis.
?Pakistani nationals in Afghanistan are cautioned to exercise extreme vigilance as off-late senior professionals working in different fields have been kidnapped. Pakistanis either considering employment positions or currently working in Afghanistan must take into consideration their personal safety and well being before accepting employment or continuing their residency in Afghanistan,? he added.
China too on Friday cautioned that Chinese-invested organisations and Chinese citizens to increase security awareness, strengthen internal precautions, reduce trips outside as much as possible, and avoid crowded public spaces because of imminent terrorist attacks against them.
While the Air Force chief made claims that in future any US drone or other aircraft that trespasses inside Pakistan air space will be shot down, to a query the spokesman replied, ?On drone strikes, our policy is clear and already in public domain. There is no change or policy shift.?
In the past Pakistan has refrained from bringing down US drones. While former US President Barrack Obama compared his successor Donald Trump to Hitler for his policy to recognise Jerusalem as Israel?s capital, the spokesman announced that since OIC is holding an emergency session in the next few days, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will attend.?Our foreign minister will attend the Council of Foreign Minister?s Session of the OIC. We will follow the policy that OIC adopts at the end of this Emergency Session,? he remarked.
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?The visit should happen on 25th December, 2017. A diplomat from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad will be allowed to accompany the visitors. Requisite security would be provided to the visitors,? spokesman at the Foreign Office announced today.
"In what looks like a quid pro quo, India appears to have dropped the Pakistan specific condition of attaching a letter from the Pakistan foreign minister while applying for a medical visa. Indian officials say, "Now common man [Pakistanis] is directly calling Sushma ji on twitter and she is responding with visas.
Jadhav, an undercover RAW officer, is presently on death row after he confessed to carrying out and facilitating acts of espionage and terrorism inside Pakistan. He was captured inside Balochistan.
He was sentenced to death by the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under the Pakistan Army Act.
Earlier in November, the Pakistan Army had allowed Jadhav a meeting only with his wife on purely humanitarian grounds and based on Islamic traditions and jurisprudence.
However, Jadhav?s wife was initially reluctant to travel alone to Pakistan and had requested for her mother-in-law Avantika Jadhav to accompany her.
With India moving the International Court of Justice, which gave a stay for Jadhav?s execution, there was pressure from India and some world capitals to also allow the mother of Jadhav and an Indian official to also be present in the meeting, and complete security should be guaranteed to the visitors.
Pakistan relented and the Foreign Office was conveyed of Rawalpindi?s decision, which in turn informed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi.
There was quick reaction from India on Friday, which accepted Pakistan?s announcement, with Sushma Swaraj , Minister (MEA), tweeting, ?Government of Pakistan has conveyed that they will give visa to the mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav. Pakistan has agreed to facilitate the visit of mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav and assured us of their safety, security and freedom of movement in Pakistan.?
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has written to his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj regarding the provocative ceasefire violations by the Indian army and the recent extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris.
?In 2017, India had violated the Line of Control 1,300 times and as a result, 52 citizens had been killed and 175 had been injured. We also condemn the extra-judicial killings of eight young Kashmiris and destruction of houses by Indian forces,? said the spokesman.
Pakistan has repeatedly raised its concerns about the hegemonic conduct of India, including the unprecedented escalation of ceasefire violations this year by Indian occupation forces at the Working Boundary and LoC in an attempt to deflect the attention of the international community from the continuing Indian atrocities against Kashmiris in Indian Held Kashmir.
He also brushed aside an earlier statement made by CIA Director Mike Pompeo , made a day before the US Secretary of Defense reached Islamabad, warning Pakistan that the US would step in to destroy militant safe havens.
"The statement that came a day before an important visit was unnecessary and contrary to the facts," the spokesperson said, adding that during his visit, Mattis had praised the professional conduct of Pakistan's armed forces.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson noted that incidents of kidnapping of Pakistanis from Afghanistan are increasing. He asked Pakistani citizens in Afghanistan to take caution and register with the Pakistan Embassy on an urgent basis.
?Pakistani nationals in Afghanistan are cautioned to exercise extreme vigilance as off-late senior professionals working in different fields have been kidnapped. Pakistanis either considering employment positions or currently working in Afghanistan must take into consideration their personal safety and well being before accepting employment or continuing their residency in Afghanistan,? he added.
China too on Friday cautioned that Chinese-invested organisations and Chinese citizens to increase security awareness, strengthen internal precautions, reduce trips outside as much as possible, and avoid crowded public spaces because of imminent terrorist attacks against them.
While the Air Force chief made claims that in future any US drone or other aircraft that trespasses inside Pakistan air space will be shot down, to a query the spokesman replied, ?On drone strikes, our policy is clear and already in public domain. There is no change or policy shift.?
In the past Pakistan has refrained from bringing down US drones. While former US President Barrack Obama compared his successor Donald Trump to Hitler for his policy to recognise Jerusalem as Israel?s capital, the spokesman announced that since OIC is holding an emergency session in the next few days, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will attend.?Our foreign minister will attend the Council of Foreign Minister?s Session of the OIC. We will follow the policy that OIC adopts at the end of this Emergency Session,? he remarked.
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