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UK Royal Couple Returns Home After 5-Day Visit to Pakistan

Associated Press

   ISLAMABAD - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, wrapped up
   their five-day visit to Pakistan on Friday, in which they dined with
   the prime minister and made an emotional tour of a cancer hospital
   previously visited by William's mother, the late Princess Diana. The
   Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are heading home to Britain.

   The only wrinkle in their trip came Thursday evening, when severe
   weather caused the Royal Air Force Voyager aircraft to abort two
   landing attempts in the capital, Islamabad. They were forced to return
   to the eastern city of Lahore, calling off their scheduled visit to the
   Khyber Pass region bordering Afghanistan. Britain's Press Association
   termed it a "pretty bad storm."

   William and Kate had toured the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
   and Research Centre on Thursday. It was started in the early 1990s by
   the cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan, now Pakistan's prime
   minister, whose first wife Jemima Goldsmith was a friend of Princess
   Diana.

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