Pakistan claimed that Afghanistan,Foreign Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif, has proposed Pakistan to swap Indian National Kulbhushan Jadhav against a terrorist who carried out an attack in the year 2014 in Army Public School at Peshawar.
While the nation is in grief for 2014 attack, Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif said the terrorist is in Afghan custody.
“The National Security Advisor (NSA) of Afghanistan told that we can exchange that terrorist with the terrorist you have, which is Kulbhushan Jadhav,” Asif told the audience after his speech at the Asia Society here on Tuesday. Asif, did not specify the name of the terrorist and the NSA who had made the proposal.
He discussed Pakistan’s vision for and approach towards regional peace and development during his conversion with author and journalist Steve Coll.
Asif said, “Pakistan had suffered grievously from conflict and instability in Afghanistan. “Unless this cycle is reversed, we would continue to bear the brunt. No country, therefore, has a larger stake in seeing peace and stability return to Afghanistan than Pakistan. Regrettably, the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse,” he said.
Jadhav, the retired Indian Navy officer, has been given death sentenced in April by Pakistan’s Field General Court Martial on charges of his alleged “involvement in espionage and sabotage activities” against Pakistan.
International Court of Justice had restrained Pakistan from executing Jadhav from the case.
