It is expected that final hearings of the case will be conducted in the next couple of months. India on September 13 submitted a 22-page memorandum wherein it objected to Jhadav being tried by a military court in Pakistan. Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Pakistan set to submit its reply to ICJThe federal government has already appointed former chief justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani as an ad-hoc judge for the case at The Hague. Recently, Pakistan has offered India a meeting of Jhadav with his wife on humanitarian grounds. The ICJ on May 18 halted the execution of Jhadav, who was sentenced to death by a military court on April 10 after being convicted on charges of terrorism and espionage.

Source: The Express Tribune December 07, 2017 04:30 UTC