A lawyer in Pakistan says he’s filed a court petition seeking the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond from Britain.<br /><br /> Jawaid Iqbal Jaffree named the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II as a respondent in the petition, which was filed in the eastern city of Lahore.<br /><br /> Over the years, India has also made several requests for the stone to be handed back. <br /><br /> The country was forced to hand over the diamond in colonial times. Then the largest known diamond in the world, the 105-carat rock was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850.<br /><br /> It is set in a crown last worn by the late Queen Mother, during Elizabeth II’s coronation and is now on display in the Tower of London.
