The agent cannot appoint a lawyer in Pakistan without assistance from India, it had read. On July 16, Indian charge d’affaires had reached the FO as New Delhi had accepted Pakistan’s offer to give second consular access to Jadhav. Aisha said that on September 2, 2019, Pakistan had provided the first consular access to Jadhav under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963. She also said that Pakistan provided two consular officers of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad unimpeded and uninterrupted consular access to Indian Commander Jadhav. On May 8, 2017, India had approached the ICJ against Pakistan for denying consular access to Jadhav.

Source: Pakistan Today August 06, 2020 17:15 UTC