Pakistan’s violations of international covenants in Kulbhushan Jadhav case have come crashing down | The Indian Express

Pakistan’s violations of international covenants in Kulbhushan Jadhav case have come crashing down | The Indian Express

Written by Tilak Devasher |Updated: July 19, 2019 9:38:00 am

The writer retired as special secretary in the cabinet secretariat, Government of India.

Pakistan’s violations of international covenants in Kulbhushan Jadhav case have come crashing down

In Pakistan’s delusional parallel universe, victory has been claimed on two grounds: Jadhav’s death sentence was not annulled and the ICJ did not order his release. Some have even claimed that by not releasing Jadhav, the ICJ has accepted that he is a terrorist and that implicitly India is a state sponsoring terrorism!

ICJ reprimanded Pakistan by saying that it “was under obligation to cease internationally wrongful acts of a continuing character.”

If ever proof were needed that India and Pakistan lived in parallel universes, the reaction to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgment in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case provides it. The vital difference, however, is that while India’s universe is rooted in reality, Pakistan’s is quite delusional.