Pakistani troops working under UN flag in Liberia travelled over 50-km on foot in a day to explore an inaccessible area so as to extend the humanitarian assistance to the needy.
The expedition, which comprised officers and soldiers of the Pakistan Army wearing blue berets in Liberia, was aimed to explore the inaccessible track so as to help the needy people.
The expedition set out at 0500 hours in the morning on June 28, 2006, on route Vahun-Nomodatundu.
Fifteen hours from the beginning of expedition, passing through low hanging branches and high growing bushes, covering a distance of 54-km, travelling only on foot, stopping just for food and not leisure reached the destination by 2000 hours the same day.
With approximately 400 occupied structures and population of more than 7,000, Vahun in Lofa County is cut off from all road links connecting it with other parts of the country and has remained inaccessible to all NGOs/agencies, who wish to extend their humanitarian services to this isolated area.
Besides, in the absence of any road link with their own country the people of this area are totally dependent on the road link with Sierra Leone and per force have to rely for all their basic needs on the neighbouring towns across the border.
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