Pakistan’s High Comm-issioner to India Abdul Basit on Tuesday said Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on alleged espionage charges, is alive. “I can assure that he is alive,” Basit said in an interview to CNN News 18 TV channel.
He said an appeal sent by Jadhav’s mother has been passed on by Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale to Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua. Basit described the Jadhav case as “highly sensitive”.