However, the UK embassy remains "open as usual", including for consular and visa services.

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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.

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