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KARACHI - The Pakistan Boxing Federation will send pugilists for training to England and other countries ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, officials announced Tuesday.
PBF President Doda Khan Bhutto said that efforts were afoot for specialised training for the Pakistan boxers before major international championships. He was addressing a function, hosted in his honour by the Sports Journalists Association of Sindh (SJAS), on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club. Secretary PBF Akram

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday revealed that it had decided to send a team to the UK to arrest Amin Qasim Dada, the main accused in the National Insurance Corporation Ltd scam.
The announcement was made at a press conference in Karachi by FIA Sindh Director Moazzam Jah. "The decision to this effect was made after FIA issued a Red Warrant for Dada," Jah said, referring to the international arrest warrant which a country's government lodges with

TRIPOLI - The leaders of Britain, France and the United States (US) said a Libyan future including Moammer Gaddafi was "unthinkable", as Russia charged Friday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was exceeding its UN mandate in the restive Arab nation.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama penned a joint article dismissing a Libyan future with Gaddafi as "unthinkable" and saying his staying on would

Islamabad - British Prime Minister David Cameron called Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani over telephone on Friday to follow up on the very useful discussions on bilateral and regional issues, held during his visit to Islamabad on April 5th.
According to a Press Release, David Cameron apprised the Prime Minister that his Government was proactively pursuing Pakistan's case with EU for greater market access, as well as for dispatch of EU's Fisheries' delegation to Pakistan.

LONDON - A British minister said on Wednesday that more than a quarter of the world's population was expected to watch television broadcasts of this month's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman said a figure of 2 billion people was provided by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a briefing at a cabinet meeting where he also said preparations for the April 29th nuptials were going well.

KABUL - British troops killed an Afghan woman and wounded a woman and a child in a car accident in Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief said, adding that initial reports a man had been shot dead at the scene were wrong.
Spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said information he had initially given out, that two women and a man had been killed, was the result of miscommunication between security forces. The accident came at a time of heightened anti-Western sentiment

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters at Parliament House on Wednesday that a draft had been prepared for the agreement to exchange prisoners between Pakistan and Britain.
Malik said officials from both countries were in contact regarding the agreement and the court had issued un-bailable arrest warrants for former president Pervez Musharraf. He said that if no action was taken on the warrants, the court would make a decision itself.
He said the court

ISLAMABAD - Terming Britain's ties with Pakistan "unbreakable", British Prime Minister David Cameron told a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday that the two countries had resolved to enhance bilateral trade from ₤1.2 billion to ₤2.5 billion by the year 2015 as both countries launched a strategic dialogue to expand cooperation in defence, economy and education.
The British premier also called for economic reforms in Pakistan,

ISLAMABAD - United Kingdom Defence Staff Chief General David Richards called on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Khalid Shameem Wynne in Chaklala on Tuesday.
"He discussed matters of mutual interest with the CJCSC, especially emphasising emerging regional and geo-strategic environments," said an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.

LONDON - Britain's first official royal app was launched on Tuesday, and with the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton just weeks away, unsurprisingly it focuses on royal weddings.
The "Royal App", launched by the Royal Collection, will feature details of seven previous weddings, including Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert in 1840 and the 1981 wedding of William's father Prince Charles to Princess Diana.
It culminates with Charles's wedding to second wife

LONDON - The number of British households with dogs has overtaken those with cats, according to a survey, with smaller breeds becoming more popular, possibly because of their association with celebrities. "The popularity of small and very small dogs is often perceived as a fashion trend, influenced by celebrity `handbag' dogs," said the survey by Mintel. Another factor could be the appeal of canine couture with top designers including Vivienne Westwood and Ben de Lisi creating dog

ISLAMABAD - On the invitation of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rt. Hon. David Cameron would pay an official visit to Pakistan on Tuesday.
According to foreign office, Pakistan attaches considerable importance to the British Prime Minister's visit and to the close cooperative relationship with the United Kingdom.

LONDON - Jennifer Lopez's new entry "On The Floor" knocked Adele off the top of the U.K. singles chart on Sunday but the young British soul singer is still dominating -- and breaking records with -- album sales.
The Official Charts Company said Adele's "21" and "19" albums clung to the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the longplayer chart, seeing off new entries from "X Factor" contestant Mary Byrne, indie band Radiohead and U.S. diva Britney Spears.

LAHORE - Britain's Labour government regarded Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as a major "obstacle" to a Pakistan-India deal on Kashmir, India's The Hindu newspaper quoted a cable released by the WikiLeaks (website) as stating on Sunday.
The cable, dated November 28, 2008 (180571: confidential/noforn) from the US Embassy in London showed that until a day before the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the view in the British Foreign Office was that India and Pakistan

LONDON - Thousands of street parties will be held across Britain to celebrate Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton next month, local government officials said on Saturday, as royal wedding fever grips parts of the country.
In London alone, some 500 requests have been made to councils to close down roads so locals can get out the bunting and set up their fold-up tables for the traditional get-togethers, held in honor of major state occasions.
"Street parties are an

RAWALPINDI - British authorities have not yet given any response to former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf's arrest warrants that the Pakistani High Commission handed over to the British government, the FIA said on Saturday.
FIA prosecutors Chaudhry Azhar and Chaudhry Zulfiqar said this while appearing in Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) hearing the Benazir Bhutto murder case. During the in-camera hearing at Adiyala Jail, ATC Special Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed took serious notice of

LONDON - About 1,000 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the British government said in a human rights report published on Thursday.
"Whilst there has been no official death toll, several sources report that approximately 1,000 people have already been killed and many more have been injured during the recent violence," the report from Britain's Foreign Office said.
The Foreign Office also said