After the International Court of Justice announced its verdict to hold the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav- who was awarded the death sentence by Pakistan for allegedly being a spy, India seems to have half won a legal battle.

But a year before Kulbhushan Jadhav’s conviction came to light, Mumbai-based engineer- Hamid Ansari was tried and convicted by a Pakistani military court.

Ansari’s mother Fauzia is hopeful that Jadhav’s verdict might bring a positive result in her son’s case too. Hamid has been languishing in a Pakistan jail for more than four years now.

“I had met Sushma Swarajji earlier this year, and she said that she was treating Hamid’s case as a priority. I obviously understand that Kulbhushan is a death row convict, and the immediacy in his case is much more. But now, after the international court’s verdict, I’m certain that authorities will help us too. Of course, they will help us. Why won’t they?,” Fauzia Ansari, the mother of Hamid Ansari, was quoted by Firstpost as saying.

According to reports, Hamid, a 31-year-old engineer from Mumbai, left home in 2012, telling his parents that he has found a job in Afghanistan. His parents lost contact with him after he informed them he had landed in Kabul.

The Indian Express had reported a year ago that after the parents did not hear from their son, the officials and associates told them that Ansari was in love with a woman from the Kohat region of western Pakistan. The police also mentioned that Ansari’s friend convinced him to get a legal entry into the country from Afghanistan.

But since then nobody heard from Hamid and after three years of desperate and intensive search, his mother realized he had been arrested in Pakistan and had been convicted of espionage. At the moment he is in a jail in Peshawar.

India Today had reported that despite the Peshawar High Court granting Ansari visitation rights after the completion of three years, Fauzia has not been able to meet her son.

How difficult it is for a mother to fight her love amidst legal battles that go beyond borders!

With a heavy heart and teary eyes, Fauzia told Firstpost “We have applied for a Pakistan visa 30 to 35 times but our application was rejected.”

She further added that the high court dismissed their petition saying that they did not have jurisdiction over military courts.

Scroll.in reports that despite constant efforts by the Government of India, no response has been received from Pakistan. Tired and hopeful at the same time Hamid’s parents are now fighting for their son through a lawyer in Islamabad who has filed a case in Pakistan’s Supreme Court.