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Saber rattling might prove to be counter productive because pakistani establishment would loath to appear to have caved in to Indian threat. Hope the govt has some tricks up their diplomatic sleeves.

No doubt that unless India officially announces that it has a pakistani spy in its custody, the premise for a prisoner swap appears problematic. Even if pakistan is ready to release Kulbhushan Jadhav, it has to give a satisfactory reason for the release, esp to its ever suspicious public. Right...

Every avenue to rescue our guys behind enemy lines must be pursued, this is important for the morale of the guys already in the field that we got their back. Ideally a deal could be a prisoner swap, if there is any truth to the reports that we got one of their high ranking retd officer in...

Pakistan has suffered a string of legal set backs in the international arena in the past few years and the fact that they had to reign in a barrister practicing law in England is perhaps a most telling indictment of true state of jurisprudence in that country. I'll put it down to the fact that...

Never execute foreign spies, esp when you have your own spies in foreign lands. This is what US attorney James Donovan argued while defending the soviet spy Rudolph Abel in the US Supreme Court. Incidentally it was Donovan who was tasked with arranging the release of U-2 pilot Gary Powers in...

We will have to work under the constraints imposed by circumstances over which we have no control. It is not given that pakistan will move the case to a civil court, this will probably require India to work with foreign powers to exert pressure on Pakistan to oblige.

Our legal options depends on getting his retrial moved to a Civil court and then get state prosecution to file fresh charges and list evidence. I'm sure even in a backward country like Pakistan, confessions obtained under duress is not admissible as evidence in civil court of law. But I admit we...

India's primary objective at the ICJ was to get stay on the execution and relief on the plea for consular access. Although we had requested that he be set free, this was mostly Just a statement. In order for the ICJ to set Kulbhushan free, it had to go into the merits of the the case, which, not...

The ICJ verdict clearly establishes that pakistan violated international law by denying India consular access. By staying the execution and asking pakistan to review and reconsider the trial, it has cast serious aspersions on the transparency and fairness of the the original trial. This is a...