New Delhi/Islamabad (TIP):  The Pakistan army brass decided after a discussion on April 13 that there would be no compromise on the issue of the death sentence+ awarded to retired Indian Navy commandant Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pak army’s media wing, said in a statement. Also, the Pakistan foreign office officially acknowledged that one of its retired army officers was missing in Nepal.

The Jadhav issue was discussed at the corps commanders’ conference held in the army’s General Headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, and presided over by the chief of army staff, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. The participants were briefed about Jadhav+ , who was sentenced to death by a field general court martial earlier this week, the ISPR presser said. The unprecedented April 10 decision has sparked a major diplomatic row between the two hostile neighbours.

The Pakistan authorities also warned against the linking of its missing ex-army officer in Nepal with the Jadhav issue.