We also have a visa application pending for an Indian national Mrs.Avantika Jadhav who wants to meet her son in Pakistan /5 — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) 1499661985000

against whom they have pronounced a death sentence. /6 — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) 1499662011000

I wrote a personal letter to Mr.Sartaj Aziz for the grant of her visa to Pakistan. /7 — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) 1499662131000

However, Mr.Aziz has not shown the courtesy even to acknowledge my letter. /8 — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) 1499662174000

Pakistan to consider visa request of Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother

NEW DELHI: Pakistan said on Thursday that it "is reviewing" application to grant visa to Avantika Jadhav , the mother of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav , who's on death row there.Pakistan's foreign affairs spokesperson Nafees Zakaria, during the weekly Foreign Office briefing, said that asking for recommendations from Aziz to grant visas was against "diplomatic norms".The pending visa application of the mother Jadhav is currently under review, he said.The news comes three days after Union minister Sushma Swaraj flayed her Pakistani counterpart for not even replying to her letter requesting a visa for Jadhav's mother,Jadhav was convicted of "spying" by a military court earlier this year.On Monday, external affairs minister Swaraj used strong words to hit out at Pakistan's foreign affairs head Sartaj Aziz for not having "the courtesy even to acknowledge" her letter to him urging he grant a visa to Jadhav's mother.Swaraj said she wrote a "personal letter" to Aziz for the grant of Avantika Jadhav's visa."However, Mr. Aziz has not shown the courtesy even to acknowledge my letter," she tweeted.Pakistan says it arrested Jadhav last year from Balochistan, while India says Pakistan kidnapped the former naval officer from Iran, where he'd gone to conduct business. In April, a Pakistani military court sentenced Jadhav to death.India took the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking for a stay on that execution, anchoring its arguments on the fact that Pakistan violated the Vienna Convention.In May, the ICJ stayed Jadhav's execution pending its verdict in the case.