India-Pakistan spy case ruling due at world court

The International Court of Justice will today decide on India’s bid to remove an alleged spy from death row in Pakistan.

The spy case was reported to have stoked tensions between the South Asian rivals.

A former Indian navy officer, Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, was arrested in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan in March 2016 on charges of espionage.

The 48-year-old was then sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in 2017, sparking outrage in India.

India insists that Jadhav was not a spy, saying he was kidnapped in Pakistan which New Delhi is asking the ICJ to order Islamabad to annul the sentence.