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ISLAMABAD: While the British High Commission hogs on to its claim of having lost just 150 Pakistani passports, additional evidence has come to light suggesting that the scam involves thousands of lost travel documents. A Pakistani investigating agency is in possession of a list of 3,362 passports, which are believed to have gone missing at [...]
LONDON: The UK government needs to be “less deferential” towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said. The Commons Foreign Affairs committee also said it was wrong to speak of “the special relationship” with the US, as it was fostering other alliances. However, the MPs did [...]
LONDON: Britain announced Tuesday it was kicking out an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas chief in Dubai, in a sharp escalation of tension triggered by the murder. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there were “compelling reasons” suggesting that Israel was to blame for the forgeries [...]
LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday. A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage [...]
ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission, while refusing to accept the social and economic status of the former Punjab governor and senior adviser to the punjab chief minister Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, has declined to issue a visa to him. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also phoned the British high commissioner and his secretary wrote a letter [...]
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called on President Asif Ali Zardari here on Sunday. The president who is here on a private visit, discussed with Mr Miliband the issue of visas for Pakistanis, especially students and immigration matters. The president called for early resolution of the visa problems being faced by Pakistanis, particularly students. [...]
LONDON: Labour’s record on tackling asylum faces a fresh onslaught today over figures that show a new backlog of 30,000 cases and a warning by the government’s immigration watchdog that its targets are currently “unachievable”. John Vine also makes clear that a special five-year exercise which began in 2006 to clear the legacy of 450,000 [...]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the Iraq war inquiry on March 5, the inquiry said in a statement Monday. Brown was Britain’s finance minister at the time of the 2003 US-led invasion, and is being called to give his account of the conflict several weeks after then prime minister Tony Blair [...]
The hit squad that killed a senior Hamas official in Dubai may have entered the country using diplomatic passports, officials in the Emirates said yesterday as they called on Britain and other European countries whose documents were forged to launch a full inquiry. “There is still information that Dubai police will not make public for [...]
On Thursday, the same day that Israel’s ambassador to Britain was asked to tell the British government if he knew anything about the apparent use of cloned British passports by suspects in the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai last month, his embassy’s official Twitter feed posted a joking reference to the killing. After [...]
LONDON: David Cameron today called for an inquiry into allegations that Gordon Brown bullied staff at Downing Street. The Conservative leader said that Sir Philip Mawer, Downing Street’s independent adviser on ministerial standards, should look into the allegations made by the Observer journalist Andrew Rawnsley and subsequently amplified by the National Bullying Helpline charity. However, [...]
LONDON: The Metropolitan police is investigating allegations that MI5 was complicit in the torture of Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident in Guantánamo Bay, it was revealed today. Investigating officers have applied to the high court for the release of classified government documents relating to the case. They are already investigating claims of MI5 [...]
LONDON: Britain has flatly denied any foreknowledge of a Mossad plan to assassinate a top official of the Palestinian group Hamas, in Dubai, amidst angry accusations in Whitehall that Israel is seeking to deflect blame from itself by implicating others. British government sources dismissed as “nonsense” a report claiming the Israeli secret service had given [...]
LONDON: UK immigration recently announced full details of the UK student visa changes under Tier 4 of the points based system. The intention of the changes is to make it more difficult for bogus students from outside Europe to gain entry to the UK. This follows a review of the Tier 4 visa system in [...]
LONDON: Britain last night fired the first shot in a potentially explosive diplomatic row with Israel by calling in the country’s ambassador to explain the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who targeted a Hamas official in Dubai. The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office to “share information” about [...]
LONDON: Gordon Brown stepped into the growing international row over the alleged use of fake passports by the assassins of a Hamas leader in Dubai by promising a full investigation. As demands were made for the Israeli ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer allegations that the Mossad security service was behind [...]
LONDON: Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardised by a British court’s disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and shackled in US custody, diplomats and security officials said Wednesday. Fears in the United States that Britain can no longer be trusted with secrets is prompting an urgent assessment of relations between the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Describing the conviction of Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui as a miscarriage of justice, parliamentarians in Britain have called for a withdrawal of the case against her and urged her repatriation to Pakistan. Lord Nazir Ahmed together with other speakers, said her trial in New York was full of flaws and not based on [...]
LONDON: Three Labour MPs charged yesterday with theft over fraudulent expense claims declared that they were above the law and would fight attempts to put them on trial. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine each face up to seven years in jail after Keir Starmer, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, announced that he [...]
LONDON: Britain’s first Pakistan-born Muslim Member of Parliament Mohammad Sarwar defended himself being the single biggest parliament spender by claiming £192,986.87. Figures showed MPs claimed £95,576,589.18 between them in expenses
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
