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ICJ decides Kulbhushan Jadhav's fate today, but diplomacy still best bet

International Law is largely 'law without sanctions'. Diplomacy is likely to serve him better

Kulbhushan Jadhav
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File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of 'espionage'

Sanjay HegdePranjal Kishore
The ‘Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations’ or the ‘Jadhav Case’ is the fourth instance of a dispute between India and Pakistan finding its way to the International Court of Justice. 

The ICJ will pronounce its verdict on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case on Thursday, just 10 days after India approached it demanding immediate suspension of the death sentence given to its former navy officer by a Pakistan military court.

Kulbhushan Singh Jadhav, an Indian Citizen, was sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan on April 10, 2017. Pakistan claims that he “was arrested on March

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