“Pakistan has conducted successfully through Operation Zarb-e-Azb one of the largest
counter-terrorism operations ever conducted. The lessons learnt and deep
expertise gained by Pakistan’s armed forces and law-enforcement agencies
constitute an invaluable resource available to the United Nations.”
This was
stated by Minister for Defence Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan in his meeting
with UN Undersecretary General for Field Services Atul Khare (USG- DFS), whom
he met on the sidelines of the United Nations’
Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
Khurram
Dastgir Khan also informed USG-DFS of Pakistan’s successful endeavor to increase
participation of women in peacekeeping contingents.
UN
Undersecretary General for Field Services appreciated Pakistan’s historical and
ongoing contribution to UN peacekeeping, particularly the sacrifice of 140
soldiers since 1960. He commended Pakistan’s advanced logistics and training
facilities for UN peacekeeping.
Minister
for Defence will speak twice on the final day of the Conference, respectively
on Pakistan’s “Smart Pledges” to UN Peacekeeping operations and on “Early
Warning and Deployment”, one of the principal themes of the Ministerial
meeting.
In
the last six decades, Pakistan has sent over 180,000 troops to 45 UN missions
in 28 different countries.
