The FCO Urdu website closely mirrors the look and feel of the FCO main website and is gradually providing our Urdu readers with the same tools.

There is core content on what we do and how we are organised, what our policy goals are, and our involvement with business and trade. There are also expanded sections on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Policy goals

FCO policy goals include preventing and resolving conflicts, supporting Britons abroad, developing effective international institutions and promoting a low carbon, high growth, global economy.

The latest additions to the website include:

About the FCO 

• Support for British nationals abroad (Urdu summary)
• Exceptional assistance measures for victims of terrorist incidents overseas

FCO in Action 

• Pakistan Youth Parliament
• UK in Helmand, Afghanistan
• UK Government's strategy – known as CONTEST - for countering international terrorism (in Urdu)
• Country profiles: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey (India to be added soon)

Forced marriage and child abduction

• What is forced marriage?
• The Survivor's Guide. Practical help for those who are or may become victims of forced marriage, based on the experiences of survivors

About Britain

• Guide for British Hajjis for December 2008 (in Urdu)
• Getting a UK visa: ATAS, family visas, biometric fingerprinting, TB screening, Right of appeal, Q&As for visitors, new points system etc
• British Muslim Media Guide: guide  for the British media, from the British Council. Who British Muslims are, what they care about and what they do. Filled with information as well as a directory of contacts in Muslim organisations
• Muslims in Britain: the partnership between the FCO and British Muslims, and a brief history of Muslims in Britain over the last 1000 years
• Projecting British Islam (PBI): recent visits. PBI is a programme of visits by British Muslim delegations to various Muslim majority countries and those with large Muslim communities. The delegates share their experiences and take part in dialogue and debate.

Business and trade

• The business and trade section has been expanded