london British member of Parliament George Galloway, in a series of parliamentary questions and a parliamentary motion, has asked the British Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to remove MQM leader Altaf Hussain's British citizenship. Hussain is currently living inLondonafter successfully ...

JAKARTA  - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East ...

LONDON : Some British troops will have to stay in Afghanistan into 2015 to ensure the departure of forces is properly managed, defence minister Philip Hammond said on Tuesday.Combat operations are still due to finish by the end of 2014 but the final tours of duty will be extended to last up to a ...

LAHORE -A 5-member delegation of the British Council led by its UK based Chief Executive Martin Davidson on Monday visited a low-cost girl’s private school affiliated with the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) under its Foundation Assisted School (FAS) program in Baghbanpura. The purpose of ...

LONDONBritish Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday congratulated  incoming premier Nawaz Sharif on his resounding election victory and praised his commitment to economic reform.Cameron broke off from a trip to Washington to speak to Sharif on the telephone and they agreed to work to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - British double Olympic sailing medalist Andrew Simpson died Thursday when a Swedish catamaran capsized during America's Cup training on San Francisco Bay, officials said.Simpson, a 36-year-old father of two boys, was trapped underneath the 72-foot catamaran of Swedish team Artemis ...

DHAKA :Bangladesh’s war crimes court Thursday indicted a Bangladesh-born British Muslim leader and aUScitizen for their alleged role in the murder of top intellectuals during the 1971 war. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has held positions in a host of top Islamic organisations in his adopted homeland ...

Islamabad - British High Commissioner Adam Thomson has expressed the hope that violence would not derail elections in Pakistan, saying the credible and acceptable elections on May 11 were of tremendous importance for UK-Pakistan relations.In his press briefing to announce 25 members of the United ...

LONDON : Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that Britain was paying a ‘very high price’ in Afghanistan after three soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb. Six British soldiers have now been killed this year in Afghanistan. Britain has not lost so many soldiers in one incident ...

British High Commissioner in Pakistan Adam Thomson has said the British government does not favour any political party in Pakistan.Talking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday‚ he hoped that the recent terrorist incidents will not affect general elections.He expressed the confidence that state ...

LONDON : Celebrity publicist Max Clifford on Friday became the first high profile figure to be charged in a wide-ranging investigation into a scandal that has grabbed front page headlines in Britain in recent months. Clifford, 70, was charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, prosecutors said, ...

LONDONAnti-war campaigners opposed to Britain’s use of armed drones in Afghanistan on Saturday marched on a military base that this week began hosting the aircraft’s human operators for the first time.Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots had been operating Reaper aircraft to support British ...

LONDON  - Eleven British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks.The conspiracy involved at least six of the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror training, with the ...

LONDON  - Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years imprisonment at England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London. ...

LONDON A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho”, the disturbing tale of a Wall Street banker turned sadistic serial killer, will have its world premiere in London in December.A spokesman for London’s Almeida Theatre said on Friday that the show would open on ...

EDINBURGH - Olympic great Chris Hoy announced his retirement from cycling with immediate effect on Thursday. The six-time Olympic champion, Britain's most successful Olympic competitor, bows out at the age of 37 after a career in which he became the most decorated cyclist in the history of the ...

LAHORE - The British High Commissioner, Adam Thomson, on Monday held a formal meeting with Provincial Election Commission, Punjab, member Justice (retired) Riaz Kiyani and Provincial Election Commissioner Mehboob Anwar here at the office of Provincial Election Commission. The high commissioner ...

LAHORE–British High Commissioner Adam Thomson met Chief Minister Najam Sethi at CM Secretariat Wednesday and discussed with him bilateral matters.  Talking to Thomson, Sethi said the UK is an important trade partner of Pakistan and the two countries enjoy cordial relations. He said that ...

LONDON - An Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to stop Afghanistan sliding into civil war after British troops leave, a group of MPs has said, reported BBC on Wednesday.The defence select committee said the UK had a responsibility to ‘make Afghanistan work’ after ...

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the controversial "Iron Lady" who shaped a generation of British politics and was a pivotal figure in the Cold War, died following a stroke on Monday. She was 87.Queen Elizabeth II and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev led tributes to Thatcher, who ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British couple were handed lengthy jail terms on Thursday for killing six of their children in a plot to torch their house that went disastrously wrong. Mick Philpott, 56, was jailed for life, while his 32-year-old wife Mairead was jailed for 17 years for the manslaughter of their ...

KARACHI - The British Council Pakistan and Servis Sales Corporation joined hands to make learning a fun activity for Pakistani kids by providing creative learning resources through CDs and social media. Servis Fun and Learn is an initiative that aims to make learning fun for young learners through ...

Former British foreign secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday he was quitting politics, bringing an end to a soap opera of sibling rivalry that has dogged the opposition Labour party.The 47-year-old is stepping down as a lawmaker to become head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a ...

LAHORE - The British High Commissioner in Pakistan Adam Thomson called on JI Chiaf Syed Munawar Hasan at Mansoora on Tuesday and exchanged with him views on matters of bilateral interest. JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch and JI Foreign Affairs chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz were also present on the ...

QUETTA – Dozens of private educational institutions of Quetta have rejected the British Council decision to conduct the O-Level exams in Karachi, saying that this decision was taken without taking them into confidence which is unacceptable to both the parents and teachers.The representatives ...

LONDON/VATICAN CITY  - Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric resigned as head of the Catholic Church in Scotland with immediate effect on Monday in the wake of claims that he made sexual advances towards priests.Cardinal Keith O'Brien - who steps down as Archbishop of St Andrews and ...

London, GN- The UK’s shoe addiction doesn’t come cheap, with British footwear fans spending a whopping £3.5 billion on shoes last year. But despite spending vast amounts on new shoes, two thirds never see the light of day, languishing unworn at the back of the wardrobe. The ...

LONDON (AFP/Reuters) - Three British Muslim men were found guilty on Thursday of planning a string of bombings that prosecutors said could have been deadlier than the July 7, 2005, attacks on London’s transport network.Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, were convicted of ...

DENPASAR (AFP) - A 56-year-old British grandmother was sentenced to death Tuesday for smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali, in a shock verdict after prosecutors recommended 15 years imprisonment. Lindsay Sandiford sobbed as the court in Bali’s capital Denpasar handed down the ...

LONDON  - Prince William and his wife Catherine's baby will not be born until the summer, but changes to the rules of succession that would fundamentally affect its life are causing disquiet in the British establishment.Prince Charles has led the warnings this week, echoed by senior clergy and ...