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 12-year-old Scottish girl at the centre of an international custody battle told a Pakistan court today that her mother refused to allow her to perform Muslim prayers, and forced her to eat un-Islamic food.

A court in Pakistan today ordered the father of a British girl at the centre of a custody battle to surrender her passport.