An Afghan mother has been murdered by her husband, angry that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted.

A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses chopped off for doing the same thing to a young woman whose family spurned a marriage proposal from one of them.

Tens of thousands gathered at the mausoleum of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on the eve of the first anniversary of her assassination.