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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pakistan-is-vital-partner-hague.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="William Hague has insisted Pakistan is an 'important partner' despite Wikileaks revelations" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-pakistan-is-vital-partner-hague.jpg" alt="William Hague has insisted Pakistan is an 'important partner' despite Wikileaks revelations"/></a></p>
<p>Foreign Secretary William Hague has insisted that Pakistan remains &#8220;an important partner&#8221; for the UK after leaked diplomatic documents risked damaging relations with Islamabad.</p>
<p>US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks laid bare British concerns about Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear arsenal and suggested the Tories would take a tougher line with the country than Labour.</p>
<p>Defence Secretary Liam Fox, then a shadow minister, told US Ambassador Louis Susman last December that the Tories were &#8220;less dependent&#8221; on votes from the Pakistani community.</p>
<p>Pakistan&#8217;s high commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, acknowledged the potential damage from the leaked documents. &#8220;You are dealing with the relationship with states,&#8221; he told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme. &#8220;You have built them over the years and all of a sudden something gets out &#8211; it&#8217;s top secret, it&#8217;s classified, it harms the relationship.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Mr Hague stressed that Pakistan remained a &#8220;top priority&#8221; for the Government after talks with the country&#8217;s foreign minister, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi.</p>
<p>He tweeted that he had had &#8220;good discussions&#8221; with his Pakistani counterpart, adding: &#8220;Pakistan is one of our top priorities and an important partner.&#8221;</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s concerns about Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear arsenal were communicated to the US by Mariot Leslie, then the Foreign Office&#8217;s director general of defence and intelligence, at a meeting in September last year.</p>
<p>Now Britain&#8217;s permanent representative to Nato, she is quoted as saying that &#8220;the UK has deep concerns about the safety and security of Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear weapons&#8221;. She went on to say that China could play a &#8220;big role&#8221; in &#8220;stabilising Pakistan&#8221;.</p>
<p>Senior Ministry of Defence official Jon Day is quoted separately saying that Pakistan was &#8220;not going in a good direction&#8221;.</p>
<p>In another cable, Dr Fox is quoted criticising the Labour government for reinforcing Indian concerns that UK foreign policy is &#8220;skewed to Pakistan&#8221;. The Conservatives were, however, &#8220;&#8216;less dependent&#8217; than the Labour Party on votes from the British-Pakistani community&#8221;, Dr Fox told Mr Susman.</p>
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