AS PART of Pakistan Independence Day celebrations, a local party leader was named Honorary Ambassador.

During a Pakistan Independence Day Celebration, former Pakistan Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik announced that they have appointed cllr Diana Coad, UKIP's party leader in Slough, as Honorary Ambassador to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and issued an invitation for her to visit them in Pakistan as their guest.

Shafqat Bhbly, president of Slough PPP, said: "Diana is already a great help to the Pakistani community.

"We were very happy with and impressed with Diana were her help in all different sorts of things including a lot of charity work."

Cllr Coad said she was deeply honoured by this appointment which she understood is fairly unique.

She said: "I was asked to speak and I have spoken at their events before. Then there was a surprise announcement that they were appointing me as their Honorary Ambassador in the UK and Pakistan and wanted to invite me to Pakistan.

"I was hugely humbled, privileged and proud. It was completely out the blue - I was quite stunned."