THE family of a five-year-old British boy snatched by gun-wielding raiders in Pakistan has angrily insisted the kidnap was not an “inside job”.

Gordon Brown will confirm today that Britain is to send an extra 500 troops to Afghanistan after the conditions he placed on the reinforcement were met.

Two of the 12 men arrested over an alleged al-Qaida plot worked for a cargo company which has access to secure areas inside airports, it was reported today.

British police investigating an alleged al-Qaida terror plot in north west England were today searching an additional address.

Self-exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will return home in October and contest national elections despite the threat of imprisonment, one of her political advisers said.