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NEW DELHI: Shortly after an interaction between jailed Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav and his mother and wife, Pakistan was at pains to clarify that this was not their "last meeting." "This is not the last meeting. Let me say it categorically," news agency IANS quoted Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammed Faisal as saying at a press conference after the meeting. Jadhav is on death row in Pakistan, for alleged "espionage and sabotage." Faisal claimed that the meeting had not been organised to win the ongoing case at the International Court of Justice. Pakistan also backtracked from its foreign minister's remarks from Sunday that Indian diplomat JP Singh's presence at the meeting could be called "consular access." After India refuted the claim, the country's foreign office also explicitly said the meeting did not fall into said category. "It was a humanitarian meeting, it was not consular access. Indian diplomat JP...
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