Agencies
ISLAMABAD, May 29: Officials from the Indian High Commission in Pakistan met with two Indian nationals, who were arrested on charges of espionage four years ago, at the high-security Adiala Jail at Rawalpindi, media reports said here.
Two youths, 29-year-old Feroze Ahmad Lone and 24-year-old Noor Muhammad Wani, both hailing from the Gorez area of Bandihurah town in
Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested in Gilgit-Baltistan, part of the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in 2020, The Express Tribune newspaper said quoting sources.
"The two Indian nationals were recently transferred to Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail from a prison in Gilgit-Baltistan," the report said.
The consular access was provided at the request of the Indian government, according to sources familiar with the development, it added.
There was no immediate response from either the Indian High Commission here or the Pakistan Foreign Office.
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