Brits Want Diplomats' Kids Out of Volatile Pakistan

Spouses offered return to UK, too, after hotel bombing
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 1, 2008 10:48 AM CDT
Brits Want Diplomats' Kids Out of Volatile Pakistan
Pakistani women pray at the site of a massive blast at the Marriott hotel during a memorial ceremony in Islamabad last month.   (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Children of British diplomats stationed in Pakistan are returning home amid security concerns following the Marriott Hotel terrorist bombing in Islamabad last month. Britain will also allow spouses and other dependents to join the 60 kids as instability grows in the volatile nation, the Daily Telegraph reports. The departures are set for the coming days, and follow similar action by other diplomatic missions. (More Pakistan stories.)

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