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| Vienna Convention doesn’t apply to spy operations, Pakistan tells ICJ |
| 2017-12-14 |
| [DAWN] Pakistain has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a counter memorial to the Indian claim that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963, applies only to the legitimate visitors and does not cover clandestine operations. In its memorial formally filed before the ICJ on Wednesday, Pakistain argued that Indian spy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav was on an active duty and the only deduction that one could make was that he was a spy sent inside Pakistain on a special mission to carry out subversive activities. A senior government officer privy to the development told Dawn on condition of anonymity that India had no case to plead because it never denied that Jadhav was travelling on a passport on a cover or an assumed Moslem name "Mubarak Patel". The ICJ, a world court that sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague, is seized with an Indian complaint on the conviction of the Indian spy and had set a deadline of Dec 13 by which Pakistain had to submit its counter-pleadings or counter memorial against the Indian claims. The formal hearing of the case is expected to commence late February or early March next year. |
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