<p align="justify">Pakistan said today that it was considering a visa application of the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav for a visit to meet her son who was sentenced to death by a military court.<br /><br />India had requested Pakistan to allow Avantika Jadhav to meet her son.<br /><br />"Pakistan is considering the Indian request for the grant of visa to the mother of Kulbushan Yadav," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria was quoted as saying by state-run Radio Pakistan.<br /><br />Zakaria's remarks came two days after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi said that she had written a "personal letter" to Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz asking for approval of Avantika’s visa application so that she may travel to Pakistan.<br /><br />She also said that Aziz did not even respond to her letter.<br /><br />"I wrote a personal letter to Mr Sartaj Aziz for the grant of her visa to Pakistan. However, Mr Aziz has not shown the courtesy even to acknowledge my letter," she had tweeted.<br /><br />However, Zakaria said that asking for recommendations from Aziz to grant visas was against "diplomatic norms", Dawn newspaper reported.<br /><br />Zakaria also accused India of imposing "conditions" for the approval of medical visas of Pakistani patients seeking medical treatment in the country.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />Jadhav, 46, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military tribunal in April on charges of espionage and terrorism.<br />Pakistan claims its security forces arrested him from its restive Balochistan province on March 3 last year after he reportedly entered from Iran.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />However, India maintains that he was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.<br /><br />Pakistan has dismissed India's consular access request to Jadhav more than 15 times. India has accused Pakistan of repeatedly violating the Vienna Convention by doing so.<br /><br />India had approached the International Court of Justice in May seeking provisional stay to execution of Jadhav which was granted. </p>
<p align="justify">Pakistan said today that it was considering a visa application of the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav for a visit to meet her son who was sentenced to death by a military court.<br /><br />India had requested Pakistan to allow Avantika Jadhav to meet her son.<br /><br />"Pakistan is considering the Indian request for the grant of visa to the mother of Kulbushan Yadav," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria was quoted as saying by state-run Radio Pakistan.<br /><br />Zakaria's remarks came two days after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi said that she had written a "personal letter" to Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz asking for approval of Avantika’s visa application so that she may travel to Pakistan.<br /><br />She also said that Aziz did not even respond to her letter.<br /><br />"I wrote a personal letter to Mr Sartaj Aziz for the grant of her visa to Pakistan. However, Mr Aziz has not shown the courtesy even to acknowledge my letter," she had tweeted.<br /><br />However, Zakaria said that asking for recommendations from Aziz to grant visas was against "diplomatic norms", Dawn newspaper reported.<br /><br />Zakaria also accused India of imposing "conditions" for the approval of medical visas of Pakistani patients seeking medical treatment in the country.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />Jadhav, 46, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military tribunal in April on charges of espionage and terrorism.<br />Pakistan claims its security forces arrested him from its restive Balochistan province on March 3 last year after he reportedly entered from Iran.</p>.<p align="justify"><br />However, India maintains that he was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.<br /><br />Pakistan has dismissed India's consular access request to Jadhav more than 15 times. India has accused Pakistan of repeatedly violating the Vienna Convention by doing so.<br /><br />India had approached the International Court of Justice in May seeking provisional stay to execution of Jadhav which was granted. </p>