Jadhav's wife, mother to visit Pak tomorrow: Foreign Office

Press Trust of India  |  Islamabad 

Jadhav's wife and mother will arrive here tomorrow to meet the Indian prisoner on death row, the Foreign Office has said.

They will arrive in by a commercial flight and leave the same day after the meeting, it added.


India's J P Singh will accompany the visitors to the meeting.

"informs that the mother and wife of Jadhav will arrive by commercial flight on 25 Dec and leave the same day. Indian DHC in will be the accompanying diplomat," Foreign Office tweeted last night.

Earlier, said that had asked to convey the plan of Jadhav's family at the earliest otherwise it would be difficult to arrange the meeting.

Separately, Faisal had said that the meeting would take place at the and its photo and video footage would be issued.

The mother and wife of Jadhav were being provided with a meeting with him in the light of "Islamic traditions and based on purely humanitarian grounds," he had said.

on December 20 issued visa to Jadhav's wife and mother to visit to meet him.

Jadhav, 47, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April, following which moved the ICJ in May. The ICJ halted his execution on India's appeal pending the final verdict by it.

has repeatedly denied consular access to Jadhav on the ground that it was not applicable in cases related to spies.

It said that Jadhav is not an ordinary person as he had entered the country with the intent of spying and carrying out sabotage activities.

claims its security forces arrested Jadhav alias from its restive province on March 3 last year after he reportedly entered from

India, however, maintains that Jadhav was kidnapped from where he had business interests after retiring from the

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First Published: Sun, December 24 2017. 14:10 IST