Sharif in huddle with Army chief, ministers, over Kulbhushan Jadhav

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif is chairing a high-level meeting with the Army Chief and Cabinet ministers on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case.  Pakistan has decided to appoint an ad-hoc judge at the International Court of Justice for the next hearing on a plea filed by India against the sentencing of Jadhav, who it alleges is a spy.

A report said that Attorney General for Pakistan Ashtar Ausaf Ali will be leading Pakistan’s legal team at the next hearing of the case on June 8 at the UN court, which stayed Jadhav’s execution on May 18.

The ICJ had on May 18 stayed the execution of 46-year-old Jadhav, who was sentenced to death last month by a Pakistan military court that convicted him of alleged spying and subversive activities.

The Attorney General for Pakistan informed that the parliamentary committee on national security that Pakistan would appoint its ad-hoc judge for the upcoming hearing and he would himself lead Pakistan’s team at the ICJ.