India has sent out a stern message to Pakistan with the Parliament strongly condemning the Pakistan Military Court's verdict sentencing Jadhav to death on charges of spying.
"I request the Government of India to retaliate and challenge Pakistan by convicting Kashmiri terrorists through military court instead of civil court".
Jadhav's execution will be taken by India as a "pre-meditated murder" and Pakistan should "consider its consequences" on bilateral relations, if it proceeds on this matter, Swaraj warned. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told agitated lawmakers in Parliament that India would take up the issue with Pakistan at the highest level to ensure that justice was done to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Attacking Pakistan for conducting a hurried trial of Jadhav without a prior notice to India, Surjewala said the development was symptomatic of "Pakistan's Kangaroo court justice". "If anything, he is the victim of a plan that seeks to cast aspersions on India to deflect worldwide attention from Pakistan's well-known record of sponsoring and supporting terrorism", Swaraj had told both Houses of Parliament earlier in the day. Pakistan even went on to say that Jadhav was trying the destabilise the Pakistan government and was apprehended following a intelligence input from the border areas of Balochistan and Iran.
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Observers and experts on criminal or espionage-related laws in a majority of countries have suggested that the death sentence against Jadhav is a clear violation of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention that makes it mandatory for every government to provide consular access to an arrested foreign national by officials of his/her government.
German Ambassador to Pakistan Dr. Gunter Mulack, while speaking at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs within a month of Jadhav's arrest past year, informed the gathering that the Indian had been actually caught by the Taliban in Iran and sold to Pakistani intelligence.
Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday said that their armed forces are fully capable and prepared to respond to any spectrum of threat.
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