• The British High Commission in Islamabad, has said it is "continually monitoring the situation".

    BBC: Sahil Saeed kidnap - mother pleads for return of son

  • Have you met anyone else, for example the British High Commission in Kenya, anyone who is following up on this issue?

    BBC: Kenya arrests: Cardiff father claims son 'brainwashed'

  • George Sherriff, a spokesman for the British High Commission in Islamabad, said it was "continually monitoring the situation" and was in touch with Sahil's family.

    BBC: Pakistan police 'confident' of British boy rescue

  • On Tuesday, a spokesman for the British High Commission in India said UK consular officials in Delhi had spoken to the woman and local police.

    BBC: The Taj Mahal, Agra, India

  • The university has been very supportive - they kept sending faxes and emails to the British high commission asking them to grant me a visa.

    BBC: Visa delays put lives on hold in Pakistan

  • To add insult to injury, there is no one at the British high commission who responds on the whereabouts of the passport or the status of the application.

    BBC: Visa delays put lives on hold in Pakistan

  • He fears he may suffer the same fate as fellow countryman Todd Carney, whose move to Huddersfield collapsed when he was denied a visa by the British High Commission in Canberra.

    BBC: Crocker issues retirement threat

  • Azhar Mehmood runs a women's welfare group and works with the British High Commission in Mirpur to raise awareness about forced marriage - but is increasingly hearing from women who say they've been abandoned.

    BBC: Misery of Pakistan's abandoned wives

  • In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.

    ECONOMIST: The forces of destiny

  • This week a journalist from the Sri Lankan Press Institute, which had just launched defamation proceedings against a government-controlled newspaper, was attacked by club-wielding thugs, while travelling with a Sri Lankan working for the British High Commission, who was also clubbed.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • I'm contacting the BBC having exhausted all other avenues: I've written to the deputy British high commission in Karachi, to the British high commissioner in Islamabad, to the visa processing centre in Abu Dhabi, to customer services at the UK Border Agency and finally to Mr David Miliband himself at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

    BBC: Visa delays put lives on hold in Pakistan

  • The statement from Kenyatta's coalition on Wednesday implied that the British high commissioner pressured the commission to make the decision on the spoiled ballots, thus ensuring a runoff.

    NPR: Kenya: Ballot Count Begins; Charge Levied At UK

  • "Claims of British interference, including by the High Commission, in the electoral process are entirely false and misleading, " the statement said.

    CNN: March 7, 2013 -- Updated 1027 GMT (1827 HKT)

  • As it happens, the Basel gurus are introducing a 33-to-1 gross leverage ratio - which many would see as a step in the right direction, but British MPs and lords on the standards commission think is too high.

    BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...

  • Around 500 asylum seekers are currently being detained in British prisons a practice that has been condemned by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

    ECONOMIST: Time for some honesty on asylum

  • This drew a scornful response from Pakistan's high commission in London, not least because the raids were compromised by a senior British policeman who clumsily flashed plans of the arrests to a bank of photographers, forcing the operation to be brought forward by a day.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan and Britain

  • The political coalition of Deputy Prime Minster Uhuru Kenyatta the candidate that faces charges at the International Criminal Court and is the son of Kenya's founding president accused the British high commissioner of "shadowy, suspicious and rather animated involvement" in efforts to get the election commission to make a decision on how rejected ballots should be counted in the overall vote total.

    NPR: Kenya: Ballot Count Begins; Charge Levied At UK

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