Sahil Saeed was taken by robbers after a raid on his grandmother's home

The father of a British boy kidnapped in Pakistan has returned home, against the wishes of the country's police, the BBC has learned.

Sahil Saeed, five, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was seized by an armed gang while staying with relatives last week.

Interior minister Rehman Malik told the BBC that police had wanted the boy's father Raja Saeed to stay as a witness.

Mr Malik has said someone " very close to the family" had taken Sahil. Mr Saeed has not been named as a suspect.

A source close to the family had told the BBC they were unaware he had left Pakistan.

The four were killed in a Snatch Land Rover in 2008

The coroner at an inquest into the death of four British soldiers in a blast in Afghanistan has pointed to "inadequacies" in training.

In his summing-up, Wiltshire and Swindon coroner David Masters said there were issues with how soldiers were trained to deal with bombs.

Cpl Sarah Bryant and SAS reservists Cpl Sean Reeve, L/Cpl Richard Larkin and Pte Paul Stout died in 2008.

Cpl Bryant is the only British female soldier to have died in Afghanistan.

The four were killed in 2008 in a Snatch Land Rover, a light vehicle in which at least 37 UK soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Members of the assembly have voted in support of a motion to devolve policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland.

As expected the Ulster Unionist Party did not support the move, however, the motion received the necessary cross-community consent to be passed.

Policing and justice powers will now be devolved on 12 April.

Disagreement on the timing of the devolution of the justice powers had threatened to collapse Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration.