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LONDON - Britain's Royal Mail announced on Tuesday it planned to issue two official stamps to commemorate the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. The stamps will feature photographs taken by Mario Testino to mark the couple's engagement and will be available at post office branches from April 21, eight days before the ceremony.
"We are honoured to be celebrating this very special and historic occasion," said Stephen Agar of the Royal Mail. "We believe that that this set

LONDON - Serious differences have emerged in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the establishment of a separate chapter of AJK PML-N in the UK. A lobby in the party headed by President UK Zubair Gul is try their best to convince the party top leadership to reject the proposal of AJK PML-N leaders for their own branch in Britain, a party source informed Pakistan Today. A PML source said that Zubair Gul wanted a complete hegemony over the party affairs and was not willing to

LAHORE - Pakistan still sees ties with the West as an option that can be dropped when not convenient, NASDAQ quoted UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox as saying on Saturday. Speaking at the Brussels Forum on international affairs, Fox said there was still too much of a view in Pakistan that they could be partners of choice, but only as long as it suited them. He also said Pakistani authorities need to recognise that they could not use terror organisations as a short-term tactical weapon

LONDON - The British government has ordered all its diplomats to report any suspicion they may have about the UK terror suspects being tortured abroad.
The move comes in the wake of former President Pervez Musharraf interview last week that Britain gave Pakistan tacit approval of its interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
A British office source told Pakistan Today that Foreign Secretary William Hague warned all UK diplomats working overseas that they would personally

LONDON - British government has announced a radical shake-up of the student visa policy. Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study work route are amongst the changes in the student visa policy unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday. Immigration officers will have the power to refuse entry to foreign students if they fail to speak English. Similarly, tens of thousands of dependants will also be stopped from joining overseas

LAHORE - A meeting was held at the Superior University, Raiwind Road Campus, in connection with the participation in an international conference to be held at York St John University UK. It has been decided that Superior University Marketing Department
Head Hafiz Abdul Rehman will head the delegation. Superior University has been working with the York St John University UK for the last two years, dozens of students have completed their education and many are on their way to

LAHORE - British Deputy High Commissioner and UK Trade and Investment Director Robert W Gibson has said that the power crisis, corruption and security related problems are the biggest challenges faced by Pakistan, but the UK government encourages its investors to look beyond headlines. Gibson made these remarks while speaking to guests at a farewell dinner, which was arranged at the British High Commission on the successful completion of his three years tenure as UK Trade and

LONDON - Britain Tuesday said it was training extra firearms police amid growing fears of a 'Mumbai-style' terror attack. "We are working to prepare for any terrorist incident including a Mumbai-style attack in the UK," said Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones.
The government was training more police officers to respond to an armed attack and enhancing existing levels of firearms training, she said during a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in central London.

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf claimed in comments released on Monday that Britain never clearly demanded that British citizens not be tortured by Pakistani security services. As Britain prepares to open an inquiry into claims that its agents were complicit in the torture of terror suspects, Pakistan's former military ruler said London's stance may have been a "tacit approval of whatever we were doing".
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),

RAS LANUF - Britain, France and Gulf states on Monday said they were seeking UN authority for a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes counter-attacked against rebels and aid officials said a million people were in need.
Rebels swiftly rejected an olive branch offered by an associate of Gaddafi, and fighting escalated around one of the country's key oil ports. The ageing autocrat warned that if he fell thousands of refugees would "invade Europe". With civilians

LONDON - Britain's interior ministry Sunday said its plans to tighten the visa system for foreign students would not damage the country's universities. An alliance of chief executives from 16 universities has written to the interior minister, Home Secretary Theresa May, urging her to abandon plans to restrict the number of visas and impose strict English language requirements. Students represent almost two-thirds of non-European Union migrants coming to Britain. The government thinks

LONDON - The US must hold direct talks with the Taliban if it is to have any hope of ending the Afghan war, an influential British parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. The Foreign Affairs Committee said the military campaign was not working and urged the British government to use its influence in Washington to convince it to engage fully in direct talks with Taliban leaders.
"An Afghan-led, but US driven, process of political reconciliation is the best remaining hope that

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who rocked the US government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, must be extradited to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations, a British judge ruled on Thursday. Assange's lawyers said immediately they planned to appeal against the decision to London's High Court and it could still be months before the legal process in Britain reaches an end.
The 39-year-old Australian computer expert remains in Britain on bail in the

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday requested the high commissioner for the United Kingdom to hold an inquiry against the consular attache at the High Commission for Pakistan, London, for attesting the affidavit of a proclaimed offender of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL), Pakistan Today has learnt.
An official letter available with Pakistan Today forwarded by FIA investigators to the High Commission for Pakistan, London, said the FIA sent a

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan and Britain are tied in a historic and deep friendly relations and Britain is Pakistan's largest investor. He said that UK has always supported democracy in Pakistan adding that establishment of the British Overseas Pakistanis Office will help resolve the problems of UK-based Pakistanis.
He was talking to media on the occasion of launching of British Overseas Pakistanis Office, here today. Chairperson of the

KUWAIT CITY - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday said "reform - 'not repression" was the way to guarantee stability in the Arab world, in a visit to Kuwait as part of a regional tour. The day after he became the first foreign leader to visit Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Cameron told Kuwait's national assembly that protests sweeping the region were a precious moment of opportunity.
"For decades, some have argued that stability required highly controlling

ISLAMABAD - UK Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, also chairperson of the ruling Conservative Party, called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar in the federal capital on Tuesday. "She was accompanied by Damian Green, Minister for Immigration, and the British high commissioner to Pakistan," said a Foreign Office's statement.
The minister of state highlighted the problems relating to the issuance of visa to the Pakistani nationals and also underlined