The Indian Government and judiciary have scored a moral victory as Kulbhushan Jadhav’s execution has been stayed. The Indian foreign ministry has taken cognizance and acted with prudence to put Jadhav’s case in the safe hands of Mr. Salve and he did justice to his job. Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death sentence in Pakistan will be on hold till a final verdict is in, an 11-judge bench of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has concluded and the ruling on India’s urgent appeal to stop Kulbhushan Jadhav’s execution in Pakistan is heard positively. In an emergency hearing we Delhi called on UN’s top court to order Islamabad to suspend the execution of the former navy officer held guilty by a Pakistani military court of spying. Salve has put up brownie points in the execution case and hence the ICJ has considered India’s plea in a satisfactory way. The last time India and Pakistan took a dispute to the ICJ was in 1999 when Islamabad protested against the shooting down of a Pakistani navy plane that killed 16 people. In that case, the tribunal decided it was not competent to rule in the dispute and closed the case. This is the second such occasion that Pakistan is being pulled up for their urgency and acting in a hasty way of treating an Indian prisoner. It is the success for all the Indians and the Republic of India.
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