Pakistan offers India consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav on Friday

Pakistan has offered India consular access to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav on Friday, the spokesperson of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said. 

MOFA spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said India's reply on the issue is awaited. 

This comes two weeks after a UN court ordered Islamabad to make an "effective review and reconsideration" of Jadhav's conviction and death sentence and also grant consular access.

Pakistan had last week said that that it was working to grant consular access to Jadhav. India had also said that it was in touch with Pak authorities regarding the same. 

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"We said (earlier) that consular access will be given and (now) work has been started on that," Mohammad Faisal told reporters during his weekly media briefing on Thursday last week.

Jadhav, 49, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of "espionage and terrorism" after a closed trial in April 2017.

In a verdict on July 17, a 16-member bench of the International Court of Justice stayed his execution and held that Islamabad violated New Delhi's rights to consular visits after his arrest.

India was first informed of Jadhav's custody by Pakistani authorities on March 25 2016, after which in 2017, Islamabad announced that a military court had awarded death sentence to him.

New Delhi then went to the world court on May 8, 2017 and filed a case against Pakistan for “for egregious violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963” and got a stay on his hanging.