How and where is Jadhav? Could Sarabjeet have been saved?

Even though India may have got instant relief in the International Court in KulbhushanJadhav case but apprehensions are still alive about the actual status of Jadhav. Pakistan has not informed about his health and whereabouts so far. Instead of clearing the case Pakistan now says the International Court has not ordered for diplomatic access to Jadhav, nor it can decide it. It has asked to merely hold the hanging of Jadhav till the final court decision comes, says Sartaj Aziz, the advisor of external affairs to  Pak PM Nawaz Sharif. We want that Pak should submit solid proofs of whereabouts and actual status of Jadhav. If Pak is sincere with clean intentions, it should produce proof of life. Does the Government of India have any information about the whereabouts of Jadhav in Pakistan, spokesperson on External Affairs Gopal Bagle said that Pakistan government has till date given no information about KulbhushanJadhav nor told about his whereabouts. I was just thinking whether we could have saved Sarabjeettoo? Experts and lawyers say there were also various such flaws in Sarbjeet case, on which grounds Pak could have been exposed before the world. India had solid base to go to the International Court. Sarabjeet was given death sentence by the Supreme Court in the absence of his advocate. If the advocate was missing, another advocate could have been hired. The alone witness of Sarabjeet case turned away in the Pak Supreme Court. The witness had said that forcible statement was taken, fake evidences were submitted. Pak court should have started the hearing again on this ground. Alike Jadhav, Sarabjeet was also given death sentence on false accusations. Both were accused of espionage and involvement in the terrorist incidents. Alike Jadhav, demand for release of Sarabjeet was in the headlines. After the death sentence of Jadhav, Sarbjeet’s sister Dalbeer Kaur broke out. She said had the then UPA Government taken the case of Sarabjeet to the ICJ he would have been among us in India. Sarabjeet’s advocate Owais Sheikh, afraid of orthodox living in Sweden has said that the decision of the ICJ will open the way for release of Jadhav. Sheikh said that alike Jadhav, Sarabjeet also fell prey to the hostility and politics between the two nations. He was threatened to death on defending Sarabjeet and had to leave his country.

-          Anil Narendra