A lone gunman shot and killed a female minister in eastern Pakistan today, as she prepared to address a gathering of workers from her political party, officials said.

The Scottish-Pakistani girl at the centre of a custody battle told a court today that she wanted to remain in Pakistan with her father, their lawyer said.

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl taken to Pakistan by her father without her mother’s knowledge said yesterday that she went of her own free will.

British foreign policy must not be dictated by terrorists, British home secretary John Reid said today amid renewed criticism of a call from leading Muslims for it to be changed.