New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Ranveer Singh and Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar may be scripting new history with their gritty spy-action thriller about a RAW agent's exploits in Pakistan, a peek into the lives of real Indians held on espionage charges in a hostile country is no less riveting, and a darn deal more dangerous.

Former Pakistan High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit's book, Hostility: A Diplomat's Diary on Pakistan-India relations published in 2021 suggests that Pakistan does not know what to do with Kulbhushan Jadhav, held in Pakistan since 2016 on espionage charges.

According to the former high commissioner, posted to New Delhi between 2014 and 2017, Islamabad may have struggled with how to handle the high-profile case after Jadhav's a...