ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: A man on the death row at the Adiala jail on Wednesday got a lease of life after the president of Pakistan ordered a 15-day stay in his sentence till February 22.

Shahid Raza was arrested on July 30, 1997 under section 302 and the district and sessions judge of Gujrat awarded him death sentence with a fine of 200,000 on July 28, 1998.

Later, the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

The president on December 12, 2006 had also rejected his mercy claim, after which the district and sessions judge of

Gujrat had fixed February 2 as the hanging date of the convict.

—Staff Reporter