The United Nations has honoured fifty-seven military, police and civilian peacekeepers from thirty-two countries, including two from Pakistan, who paid the ultimate price for the cause of peace last year serving the missions around the world.
A ceremony to this effect was held on the occasion of International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
Among the posthumous awardees of Dag Hammarskjold medals are: Sepoy Muhammad Tarique and Havildar Ahsan Ullah Khan who both served with UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, accompanied by the Mission’s Military Adviser Col. Umar Shafique, attended the ceremony and accepted the awards, along with other heads of missions and their military attaches.
