A 12-year-old Scottish girl at the middle of an international custody battle attended a rally in the Pakistani capital today to condemn alleged secret detentions by domestic spy agencies, a day after a court allowed her to temporarily live there with her father.

European politicians today demanded to know the exact locations of the secret prisons that the US president has revealed the CIA operated overseas to interrogate terror suspects.

Human rights activists planned to go ahead with a race involving women athletes in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore today, despite a ban by local authorities who say the participation of women in such events is un-Islamic.