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Pakistani among 119 UN peacekeepers to receive medal posthumously

NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will award Dag Hammarskjold Medal at a ceremony in New York to 119 military, police and civilian peacekeepers, including a Pakistani.

The awards will be given to recognize the sacrifices of people who lost their lives in the year 2018 and early 2019.

The ceremony is being held to mark the annual International Day of Peacekeepers on Friday.

Among the fallen peacekeepers to be honoured is Pakistan’s Naik Muhammad Naeem Raza, who served with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

Pakistan’s permanent Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi said on her Twitter account: “Naik Muhammad Naeem Raza from Pakistan who embraced shahadat [martyrdom] in Democratic Republic of Congo will be recognised & his courage & memory [will be] honored.”

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.