"Pakistan has always provided maximum possible support to maintain peace and stability around the world and has been at the fore front in international peacekeeping missions around the Globe", said DG ISPR, Major General Athar Abbas while briefing Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production here Thursday.
The briefing organised in connection with 60th UN Peacekeeping Day was chaired by Senator Nisar A. Memon Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production. The members of the committee, representative of United Nations in Pakistan along with students of Islamabad colleges and media representatives attended the function.
DG ISPR said that presently Pakistan is the largest contributor to UN peacekeeping missions around the world. He said that the current deployment of Pakistan Army include eight major peacekeeping missions and nine observer missions which makes a total of 10,705 peacekeepers spread over 14 countries.
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