New Delhi, December 25: Kulbhushan Jadhav, the death row prisoner at the centre of a diplomatic battle between India and Pakistan, on Monday met his wife Chetankaul and mother Avanti at the foreign affairs ministry in Islamabad.
TV footage showed Jadhav’s family, accompanied by India’s deputy high commissioner to Pakistan JP Singh and Pakistan’s foreign office director for India Fareha Bugti , entering the main building of the ministry and the door shutting behind them.
The former naval officer’s kin arrived in the morning in Islamabad on an Emirates airlines flight from Dubai and were taken to the Indian High Commission initially for a meeting with Indian diplomats.
The meeting, which reportedly lasted for 30 minutes, started at around 1:35pm local time, officials said.
Pictures of the meeting released by the foreign office later showed Jadhav sitting behind a thick glass partition while his wife and mother are on the other side.
