Indian diplomats meet convicted spy in Pakistan

The rare visit came as officials from the two sides, trying to nudge a slow peace process forward, began talks this week to curb terrorism and drug trafficking and work out ways to exchange hundreds of prisoners held in each other's jails.

Manjit Singh was convicted of spying and involvement in bombings in Pakistan that killed 14 people, and the Supreme Court earlier this month upheld the death penalty handed to him in 1991.

But the court decision triggered an outcry in India where Singh's family said it was a case of mistaken identity and that he was a farmer in a border village who wandered into Pakistan while drunk.