Pakistan’s president commuted the death sentence against a British man who has spent 18 years behind bars disputing his conviction on charges of shooting dead a taxi driver, the interior minister said today.

The execution of a British man on death row in a Pakistani jail has been postponed until the end of the year, a prison official said today.

Prince Charles has contacted the Pakistani prime minister with his concerns over the case of a British man due to to be executed there in less than a fortnight, his spokesman said today.

A man holding dual Pakistani and British nationality on death row for murder has been granted a stay of execution in Pakistan until October 1.