"Pakistani police have arrested a man accused of burying his newborn daughter alive because she was physically deformed."

"Mohammed Farooq, a doctor at al-Shifa hospital, says he saw the child after her birth on Thursday and that she was healthy and alive but had a fairly large head and 'abnormal' features."

Mr Farooq said: 'I am a doctor at the same hospital where this child was born. This man came to me yesterday with a request that I should do something to dispose of his child, but I snubbed him and said get out.

'No one has the right to kill anyone because of his or her physical deformity.'