Pakistani soldiers leave Sierra Leone

Some 300 Pakistani soldiers, the last contingent of what was once the world's largest peacekeeping operation helping one of the poorest countries on earth recover from a decade of horrific civil war, on Thursday left Sierra Leone.
Four years on from the brutal 1991-2001 conflict which cost some 120,000 lives and left thousands mutilated, the UN Security Council in June judged conditions in the country to have improved sufficiently to end a UN mission mandate there on December 31.
The Pakistani soldiers left from the capital Freetown's Lungi airport on a flight bound for Islamabad.