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Pakistan willing to provide third consular access to Jadhav: FM Qureshi

The Indian government said the second access was "neither meaningful nor credible," and Jadhav appeared visibly under stress

Kulbhushan Jadhav
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India approached the International Court of Justice against Pakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav and challenging the death sentence. | Screengrab of a video released by Pakistan

Press Trust of India Islamabad
A day after India termed the second consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav as "neither meaningful nor credible," Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is willing to provide a third meeting with the Indian death row prisoner, according to the Pakistani media.

Pakistan on Thursday provided second consular access to Jadhav, a 50-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.

The Indian government said the second access was "neither meaningful nor credible," and Jadhav appeared visibly under stress.

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