Monday, June 04, 2012

Pakistan stands tall at UN peace missions

RAWALPINDI: When the world celebrated this year the UN Peacekeeping Day, Pakistan stood tall in the comity of nations being the second largest troops contributing country in the world, said a statement by ISPR. Pakistan’s journey with UN peacekeeping operations began in 1960 when it deployed its first ever contingent in UN operations in Congo. Over the past 52 years, Pakistan has been the most significant and consistent contributor for UN peacekeeping around the world. Pakistan has hitherto participated in 41 UN peacekeeping missions, including some of the most challenging ones. Pakistan has so far contributed 142,452 troops in the UN missions across the world. Up till now 128 Pakistani peacekeepers (10.24% of the UN total fatalities) have scarified their lives in noble cause of helping humanity, building peace and bringing stability across the regions under the banner of UN. Since 2006 Pakistan has been the largest troops contributing country. At the moment Pakistan is the second largest contributor with present deployment of 9,461 peacekeepers in seven different UN missions and is currently contributing 9.71% of the total UN peacekeepers strength. Performance of Pakistan peacekeepers has been acknowledged worldwide. staff report

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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