Pakistan’s only paraplegic death-row inmate is set to be executed today at a high-security prison in the industrial city of Faisalabad, his mother and an international rights group said.

Pakistan has postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged.

A bomb ripped through a historic south India mosque as Friday prayers ended, sparking riots that left 13 people dead and 35 wounded after a day of violence and raising fears of Hindu-Muslim clashes in Hyderabad, a city long plagued by spasms of inter-religious bloodletting.

A court in Pakistan today decided to delay the implementation of an earlier ruling that ordered a 12-year-old Scottish girl at the centre of a custody battle be returned to her Scottish mother, lawyers for the girl’s estranged parents said.

The parents of a 12-year-old British girl at the centre of an abduction row were today on course for a legal battle after she revealed she had gone to Pakistan voluntarily.