IndiaToday.in | Written by Dev Goswami
New Delhi, December 25, 2017 | UPDATED 14:41 IST
Arriving at the Pakistan Foreign Office for the meeting with her son, Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother mas seen greeting media cameras with a namaste.
It was the end of a long 22-month wait for Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother and wife, who arrived in Pakistan today to meet the incarcerated former Indian Navy officer.
Jadhav has been languishing in a Pakistani jail ever since his arrest last year over allegations that he is a spy for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's premier external intelligence agency. On April 10 this year, a military court in Pakistan convicted him of espionage charges and sentenced him to death.
That sentence in May this year after New Delhi took Islamabad to the International Court of Justice alleging Pakistan had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Access by refusing India consular access to Jadhav.
Today, Pakistan, on "humanitarians grounds", allowed Jadhav to meet with his mother and wife, who flew to the country on a special day-long trip. The mother-daughter duo were accompanied by India's Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan JP Singh.
At the time of last updating this report, it wasn't known if Singh was allowed to converse with Jadhav or not.
The meeting itself took place at the Pakistan Foreign Office in Islamabad, where Jadhav's emotional mother and wife were seen getting out of a car after arriving at the meet location from the Indian embassy.
Jadhav's mother greeted the horde of media cameras at the Pakistan Foreign Office before she and her daughter-in-law were quickly shepherded inside for the meeting (follow live updates). Watch the visuals from just before the Jadhav-mother-wife meeting here:
