Pak passes Bill to allow Jadhav right to appeal
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New Delhi, June 11
Pakistan’s National Assembly on Thursday passed a Bill providing the right of appeal against the death verdict by a military court to former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav.
The Pakistan Assembly passed the ICJ (Review and Re-consideration) Bill aimed at allowing Jadhav consular access in line with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict. The government was regularising an ordinance proclaimed in May with precisely these objectives.
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Pakistan Law Minister Farogh Nasim said had the Bill not been passed, India would have gone to the UN Security Council and could have moved contempt proceedings against Pakistan in the ICJ.
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