RAWALPINDI – United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon granted posthumous awards to five Pakistani peacekeepers who laid down their lives in 2014 while serving the cause of peace around the world.
The fallen Pakistani soldiers include Naib Subedar Saleem Akhter and Lance Naik Ibrar Mehmood, who served with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Sepoy Nazar Abbas and Lance Hawaldar Ghulam Nabi, who served with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and Sepoy Fahad Iftikhar, who was deployed with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
The awarded giving ceremony was held at UN Headquarters in New York, said an ISPR press release. Currently, 125,000 UN peacekeepers, including 91,000 military personnel, 13,000 police officers as well as 17,000 international civilian and national staff are serving in 16 operations on four continents.
Pakistan is the second largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission with 8,163 personnel including 7,581 troops, 487 police officials and 95 military experts serving in the UN operations in the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan and Western Sahara.
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