ME News Bureau: New Delhi: Pakistan has given consent to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, currently on death row, to meet his wife and mother in jail on December 25.
Confirming this, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal informed that an official from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad would accompany the relatives during the meeting.
In November, Pakistan had permitted Jadhav to meet his wife 'on humanitarian grounds,' but the appeal about his mother was undecided.
The Indian government has been trying to organize a meeting of Jadhav with his family since July and also had moved a visa application for his mother, but Pakistan had not responded.
Sushma Swaraj, Indian External Affairs Minister, had even written a "personal letter" to Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, requesting for sanction of visa application of Jadhav’s mother.
Pakistan has also denied at least 15 Indian requests for consular access to Jadhav since his arrest in 2016, which India states was in violation of the Vienna Convention.
The attitude change is a likely signal that Pakistan is under stress from the global community and the case in International Court of Justice (ICJ) is not going in their favor.
Jadhav has been in a Pakistani prison since March 2016 after security forces in Pakistan detained him on charges of spying.
Pakistan has accused Jadhav of being spy for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's intelligence agency, and of inciting turmoil in the edgy Balochistan region.
