ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has stopped sending its police personnel on the United Nations peacekeeping operations, putting home security on her priority list, it was learnt yesterday.
If Islamabad continues ban on sending peacekeepers on United Nations Missions by March 2014, Pakistan will slip to second position from first in list of 117 states which offer their services to UN to help countries torn by conflict create the conditions for lasting peace.
Interior ministry spokesperson Omar Hameed Khan confirmed the development by saying that the decision was taken ‘because of internal security situation.’
Currently, Pakistan is at top of the list of states with 8,285 civilian, police and military personnel serving for UN maintaining peace in various countries, official data revealed.
It earns tens of millions of dollars in reward of services annually. India is the second largest country with 7,864 peacekeepers for UN operations while Nigeria ranks third with 4,000 of its troops forming part of 98,311 peacekeepers.
Despite resistance from several senior officers of the departments concerned, interior minister stopped sending some 232 policemen who were waiting for their postings since 2011.
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