India told to move IHC in Jadhav case.

Byline: Nasir Iqbal

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has invited India to move a review and reconsideration petition before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the conviction of Indian naval commander and spy Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav by a military court.

'Pakistan is in communication with the Indian authorities through diplomatic channels to consider filing of a review and re-consideration petition before the high court under May 20 ordinance, 'The International Court of Justice (Review and Re-consideration) Ordinance 2020,'' an informed source told Dawn.

The invitation was extended to the Indian government after Commander Jadhav twice declined to take advantage of the law saying that sympathetic consideration be given to his mercy petition pending with Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Section 2 of the ordinance empowers the high court in Pakistan to review and reconsider any decision where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided in relation to a foreign national in respect of rights under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention of Consular Relations of April 24, 1963 or a foreign national was aggrieved in respect of the rights available under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention of Consular Relations of April 24, 1963.

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