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New Delhi: Pakistan has stayed the execution of Sarabjit Singh for a month, India's foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.
"President of Pakistan has stayed the execution till 30 April, a postponement by one month," Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement to parliament.
India's prime minister Manmohan Singh had intervened in the matter.
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf had this month rejected the mercy plea by Singh, who was to hang on April 1.
Singh was sentenced to death in 1991 for spying and
carrying out four bomb blasts that killed 14 people, but his family said he was innocent and had crossed the border into Pakistan accidentally in 1990 while he was drunk.
Pakistani officials said Singh was arrested while trying to slip back into India after the bomb blasts.
Earlier this month, Pakistan had freed an Indian man who spent 35 years on death row in a Pakistani jail on spying charges.
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