UK pledges extra 70 million pounds aid

LIVERPOOL: Britain said on Sunday it would commit an additional 70 million pounds ($110 million) to help victims of flooding to rebuild homes and schools and to restart agricultural production.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who visited the flood-hit areas at the start of September, called the crisis a "slow-moving tsunami".

"It's a catastrophe the scale of which we have barely encountered before," he said, saying that 20 million Pakistanis were affected by the flooding and noting the risk posed by water-borne diseases.

The commitment comes on top of 64 million pounds of help already offered by the British government.