ISLAMABAD – Pakistani award winning female peacekeepers Mission inspired UnitedStates Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central AsianAffairs Alice Wells.
Wells shared on Wednesday that she was inspired by the award-winningPakistani female peacekeepers serving in war-torn Democratic Republic ofthe Congo (DRC).
“Inspired by Pakistani women serving with distinction in the UNpeacekeeping mission in the DRC,” said a tweet shared on Wells behalf bythe State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.
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The US diplomat, in her tweet, commended the first Pakistani all-femalegroup of 15 peacekeepers, who received medals last week for their workperforming a range of services to the conflict-affected eastern DRC.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s female peacekeepers, deployed with theUnited Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (MONUSCO), were awarded a UN medal at a ceremony inAdikivu in South Kivu, one of the provinces of the central African country.
The team of 15 female officers, who serve at the ranks of major andcaptain, have been stationed in the war-torn country since June last year.
The officers are psychologists, stress counsellors, vocational trainingofficers, gender advisors, doctors, nurses, operations officers,information officers and logistics officers.
