Islamabad: Pakistan has said that it is not legally possible to allow an Indian lawyer to represent Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav in the courts of this country. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhary was questioned in a weekly press briefing about India's demand in this regard.
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To this, he replied that the side of India is making an inconsistent demand to allow an Indian lawyer to represent Jadhav. We have told them many times that only those lawyers can represent Jadhav in the court, who have a license to advocate in Pakistan. The spokesperson also said that the Supreme Court of India has said in one of its decisions that foreign lawyers cannot advocate inside the country. A military court in Pakistan sentenced Kulbhushan Jadhav, a 50-year-old former Indian Navy officer, to death on charges of "espionage and terrorism" in April 2017.
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Let us tell you that India had demanded from Pakistan that a reconsideration petition be filed against Jadhav's death sentence, for which India had also asked to appoint an Indian lawyer. Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Shrivastava had earlier said that India would demand an independent and impartial hearing as per the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).