Kulbhsuhan Jadhav will not be executed till he exhausts all mercy appeals: Pakistan

Pakistan on Thursday said that alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav will not be executed till he does not exhaust all his mercy appeals.

Jadhav still has two mercy appeals left, one with the Pakistani Army chief and another with the President of Pakistan.

"Irrespective of ICJ's stay, Jadhav will remain alive until he has exhausted the right to request for clemency, initially with the COAS (army chief) and later with President," Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said.

Zakaria said that India's petition at the world court was about Jadhav's entitlement to consular access and not about whether the ICJ can act as Court of appeal from Pakistani legal proceedings.

"It is not about whether the ICJ can act as a Court of Appeal from Pakistani legal proceedings. That is why Barrister Khawar Qureshi informed the Court that India cannot obtain from the Court what it is seeking. He also told the Court that India is using media to create false impression about the case," he said.

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Calling ICJ's stay on Jadhav's execution as "nothing but usual" Zakaria said the Indian authorities had failed to provide information sought by Islamabad on the basis of Jadhav's confession of spying and instigating terror in Pakistan.

However, the International Court of Justice had denied permission to Pakistan to play the "confessional" video during the hearing of Jadhav case.