Tag: Uk
NACTA, UK agree on concrete steps to combat terrorism financing
ISLAMABAD: The National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) and British High Commission on Friday agreed to take concrete steps to stem financial aid to terrorism...
European currency-swap deal to help UK banks manage Brexit
The central banks of the eurozone and Britain have agreed to activate a currency swap mechanism that would ensure British banks continue to have...
UK, EU urge Pakistan and India to exercise restraint
LONDON: The United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) have called upon Pakistan and India for restraint to avoid further escalation of tension.
In a statement, British Foreign Secretary...
‘Light-hearted fun’: UK shooting range uses ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s image...
A shooting range in England has begun using an image of teenage ISIS bride Shamima Begum for target practice, after receiving a record number...
Bid to smuggle 7kg heroin to UK foiled
LAHORE: The customs officials foiled and bid to smuggle seven-kilogram heroin worth millions of rupees in the international market to London here on Sunday.
On a...
FIA to gather evidence of Imran Farooq murder case from UK
RAWALPINDI: In a major development, investigators of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday got approval to collect more evidence from London in the...
Netherlands reports dozens Brexit-related company moves from UK
AMSTERDAM: More than 40 companies last year moved, or said they would move, their operations from Britain to the Netherlands in response to Brexit...
High time world notices atrocities in Kashmir
--AJK president says Britain needs to stop India from committing aggression against innocent Kashmiris in occupied region
--Participants say non-resolution of issue increased people's suffering,...
UK’s Pakistan-origin minister orders Vijay Mallya extradition to India
LONDON: UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has approved the extradition of Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya, who faces fraud charges back home.
The move comes...
Authorities arrest UK child sex offender in Punjab
LAHORE: A convicted child-sex offender, who was part of a gang that exploited teenage girls in a northern English town, has been arrested in...
Pakistan to extradite convicted child sex offender to UK
--Ikhalaq Hussain’s arrest further operational success for UK-Pakistan justice and accountability partnership
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to extradite a convicted child sex offender to the...
ISPR DG, British envoy promise to help terminally-ill Pakistani in UK
LONDON: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) DG Major General Asif Ghafoor and Britain’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew have promised to help a terminally-ill...
APS attack survivor given ‘Point of Light’ award by UK PM
Army Public School (APS) Peshawar attack survivor Ahmad Nawaz was given the Point of Light award by the Prime Minister’s Office in the United...
23 Pakistanis deported from UK for illegal stay
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom deported 23 Pakistanis living illegally in the country on Thursday.
They were sent back to Pakistan on a special flight that...
FIA initiates probe against its former director Ghani
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday initiated an inquiry against its former director Inam Ghani for his alleged involvement in sending Afghan nationals...
UK govt funding Pakistan’s special courts prosecuting terror suspects: report
British taxpayers are funding prosecutions in Pakistan that have led to dozens of death sentences, according to newly disclosed details of a secretive UK aid programme,...
UK court hands down 18-year imprisonment to two Pakistanis over drugs...
LONDON: A court in the United Kingdom (UK) on Sunday sentenced two Pakistani nationals involved in drugs smuggling.
Asghar Khan and Rashid Mehmood used to smuggle...
