Paksitan has claimed that India received a setback from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav — the Indian businessman whom a military court in the neighbouring country has sentenced to death, and whose cause India has now taken up at the ICJ.
Pakistan, which claims to have a video confession from Jadhav and has continuously denied India consular access to him, received a jolt on May 18 when the ICJ ordered it not to hang Jadhav till proceedings before the court were completed.
Now, the neighbouring country is apparently trying to claim a small victory of its own.
Pakistan's Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf has been quoted by Geo News as saying that India had requested the ICJ for six months' time to file its plea in the case, but the request has been snubbed by the international court during a hearing on June 8.
He added that the ICJ has given India till September 13 to file its pleadings in the case, while Pakistan has been given till December 13 to submit its counter-pleadings.
Ausaf reportedly raised objections to the request by India on the grounds that it had had a whole year to prepare its case and therefore should not be given more time.
