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.

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.

THE mother of a 12-year-old girl suspected to have been abducted by her father to Pakistan yesterday made an emotional plea for her daughter to be returned home.