UNITED KINGDOM. BLAIR URGES PAKISTAN TO STAY BRITON'S EXECUTION

Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to intervene again to halt the hanging of a British national, scheduled to occur during a royal visit to his country. And it also emerged that Prince Charles, due to visit Pakistan at the end of the month, had contacted the country's prime minister to voice his concern over the affair.
Blair warned of "very serious" consequences if the execution of Mirza Tahir Hussain were to go ahead on November 1, coinciding with a planned visit by Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
"I hope even at this stage that there is an intervention to ensure this does not take place. I think it would be very serious if it does," Blair said, when asked about the case in the House of Commons.
Hussain, 36, from Leeds in northern England, had spent half his life in a Pakistani jail fighting a death sentence for killing a taxi driver.
Pakistan's Foreign Office had no immediate reaction to Blair's comments. Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told AFP: "I don't even have absolute confirmation that this man is being hanged."