State funeral for Pakistan's 'Mother Teresa'

Pfau, who died at the age of 87 on August 10 was known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa.-AFP

Karachi (AFP) - Ruth Pfau, a German nun who devoted her life to combatting leprosy in Pakistan, was buried with full state honours on Saturday, in an unprecedented service for a foreign Christian in the Muslim-majority country.

Pfau, who died at the age of 87 on August 10 was known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa. She came to the southern port city of Karachi in 1960 and spent half a century taking care of some of the country's sickest and poorest people.