Originally Posted by GUWonder
I'd assume the same thing unless born to parents who were serving in the diplomatic or military corps. However, there is a lower probability of his being born to someone assigned to the UK as part of such a work assignment than a few other things.
Hold your horses. British citizenship isn't conferred merely upon birth on british soil. One parent has to be a british citizen AND the child has to be born in britain for british citizenship to be confered upon the person.
My guess is naturalization or that one of his/her parents where british citizens.
I only know of one country that grants citizenship merely upon the act of being born within the national boundaries -the united states. While i haven't researched it, i know of no other country (and certainly not most of the european countries) which gives out citizenships without either adoption, naturalization or having a parent which is british.
(granted, the whole overseas and british colony issues makes the notion of passports tricky, but if this guy is pakistani which his name suggests none of those rules applies).