Family to meet Kulbhushan Jadhav in Islamabad, Indian prisoner detained in Pakistan for 22 months
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IBNS): Family of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been allegedly illegally detained in Pakistan, has reached Islamabad from India on Monday, according to media reports.
Kulbhushan Jadhav has been detained in Pakistan for 22 months now and on death row in Pakistan.
After denying consular access to India to meet Jadhav, the Pakistan government finally agreed to allow Jadhav's wife to meet him, media reported.
Indian government also wanted the wife to be accompanied by Jadhav's mother and sought a sought a sovereign guarantee for their safety and security while in Pakistan, according to media reports.
After Pakistan met India's demand, travel arrangements for the two were started.
On Dec 20, Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi issued the visas to the mother and wife of Jadhav to visit Islamabad to meet him.
Jadhav's mother and wife left India on Monday accompanied by an official of the Union Ministry of External Affairs.
Earlier, Dr Mohammad Faisal,spokesperson Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan, tweeted, "Pakistan permits the meeting of wife and mother of Commander Jadhav with him, as a humanitarian gesture, on the birthday of the Father of the nation, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah."
In another tweet on Dec 23, he had said, "India informs that the mother and wife of Commander Jadhav will arrive by commercial flight on 25 Dec and leave the same day. Indian DHC in Islamabad will be the accompanying diplomat."
According to News 18, Jadhav would be meeting his family at the foreign office in Islamabad.
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