{"id":14864,"date":"2022-03-30T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:38:59","slug":"6-pakistanis-among-8-un-peacekeepers-died-in-congo-copter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/6-pakistanis-among-8-un-peacekeepers-died-in-congo-copter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Pakistanis among 8 UN Peacekeepers Died in Congo Copter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14867\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Congo_Pak_Army_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Congo_Pak_Army_1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Congo_Pak_Army_1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Congo_Pak_Army_1-696x455.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Congo_Pak_Army_1-642x420.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Islamabad: Monitoring Desk &#8211; Six Pakistani officers and soldiers among eight United Nations peacekeepers lost their lives when a Puma helicopter crashed while undertaking a reconnaissance mission in Congo.<\/h4>\n<h4>In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations said that exact cause of crash is yet to be ascertained.<\/h4>\n<h4>The martyred soldiers were identified as Pilot Lieutenant Colonel Asif Ali Awan, Co-Pilot Major Saad Nomani, Major Faizan Ali,\u00a0 flight engineer Naib subedar Samiullah Khan, the crew chief havaldar Muhammad Ismail, and gunner Muhammad Jamil.<\/h4>\n<h4>The statement said Pakistan always played a pivotal role as responsible member of the international community to help realize ideals of global peace and security during various UN peacekeeping missions.<\/h4>\n<h4>An aviation mission of Pakistan was deployed in UN Mission Congo on peacekeeping duties since 2011.<\/h4>\n<h4>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan, and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain have expressed deep grief and sorrow over the martyrdom of Pakistan Army officers and soldiers in a helicopter crash in Congo.<\/h4>\n<h4>In their separate statements, they paid tribute to the armed forces of Pakistan for their services to world peace.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Monitoring Desk &#8211; Six Pakistani officers and soldiers among eight United Nations peacekeepers lost their lives when a Puma helicopter crashed while undertaking a reconnaissance mission in Congo. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations said that exact cause of crash is yet to be ascertained. The martyred soldiers were identified as Pilot Lieutenant Colonel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[422,2336,2337,2338,2335,48,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14868,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions\/14868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}