India’s move of approaching the International Court of Justice to get a stay on the death sentence of former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav is a retrograde step in the management of our external affairs. We have always taken a position that issues concerning Kashmir vis-à-vis Pakistan are to be settled bilaterally and have even resisted intervention by any third party. We seem to have played into the hands of Pakistan, which will now find justification in taking the Kashmir problem to the international court on grounds of human rights.
A. Raghunath,
Bengaluru
