The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear a plea submitted by the federal government against Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav’s sentence today.
This comes a few days after the Pakistan government enacted an ordinance called the ‘International Court of Justice Review and Reconsideration Ordinance 2020’ on May 20 under which a petition for the review of a military court’s decision can be made to Islamabad High Court through an application within 60 days of its promulgation.
The ordinance was passed by the Lower House of the National Assembly this week amid uproar and protest by the opposition benches. It allows Kulbhushan Jadhav to file a review plea against his death sentence by the Pakistan military court in 2017.
According to Pakistani media reports, Islamabad High Court on Thursday constituted a two-member bench to hear the review petition filed by the Pakistan government in Jadhav’s case.
The bench comprising Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah and his fellow judge Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb would take up the government plea today.
Kulbhushan Jadhav, the 50-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.
