F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: The arrested Indian spy, Kulbhushan Jadhav has reportedly confessed to his crimes of being an Indian spy and terrorist during the recent meeting with his wife and mother in Islamabad.
The leading Indian newspaper Times of India reported that Jhadav confessed his crime during his meeting with mother Avanti and wife Chetna on December 25 in Islamabad. It added that Jadhav admitted that being an Indian spy had engineered a rise of terror attacks on Pakistani soil.
Indian media added that after his confession his mother grilled him that why are you saying all this, you were doing business in Iran and they abducted you and that he is the truth.
The meeting lasted almost 40 minutes, the Pakistan Foreign Office said. Indian diplomats, including Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh, accompanied Jadhav’s family and were present during the meeting, which was conducted in a specially prepared room via an intercom through a glass partition.
Jadhav alias Hussein Mubarak Patel, was arrested on March 3, 2016 in a ‘counter-intelligence operation’ from Mashkel area of Balochistan for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in Pakistan.
The incarcerated RAW agent, in his video statement, confessed to involvement in sabotage and espionage inside Pakistan, which has also been the crux of Islamabad’s case in the ICJ.
On April 10, a Field General Court Martial — under the Pakistan Army Act, 1952, and Official Secrets Act, 1923 — awarded death sentence to Jadhav for espionage and sabotage.
Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa ratified the sentencing by the army tribunal.
Jadhav has since been on the death row.
