"If we don't do more to help then we're making the problems worse"
Foreign Secretary William Hague explains why the International community needs to do more to help Pakistan.
In an interview with ITV News at 10 the Foreign Secretary William Hague explained that more help was needed for humanitarian reasons, but also for the security of Britain and the West.
鈥淓xtremists can move in to a vacuum that if Governments don鈥檛 show that they can do something to help those people then other people will move in there and start to win their confidence.鈥�
鈥淚f we don鈥檛 do more to help then we鈥檙e making the problems worse. Then we are making the potential threat that has sometimes come out of Pakistan in the past, we鈥檙e potentially making that worse.鈥�
The UK Government has so far earmarked 拢64 million to the floods and brought forward a 拢10 million pound bridge project. The UK public have contributed 拢40 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal. The Foreign Secretary has said that the UK is leading the way and that other EU nations have to do more:
鈥淚t鈥檚 in their vital interest as well that Pakistan is a stable society and a more successful economy than it has been in recent years.鈥�