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EU slams Pak over 'alarming' rate of executions, stand on Kulbhushan Jadhav

Called on Pakistan to reinstate its moratorium on the death penalty, with the goal of full abolition

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Agencies New Delhi/Brussels
The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday debated and adopted a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Pakistan, as well as slamming Islamabad for breaching international law by not allowing consular access to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death for espionage.

Significantly, the EP resolution came on Thursday, days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stayed the death sentence given to Kulbhushan Jadhav, a retired Indian Navy officer, by a Pakistan army court for alleged "involvement in espionage and terrorist activities in Pakistan".

India moved the ICJ, describing the charges against Jadhav as "concocted"