A batch of 280 Pakistani troops has left for Liberia to join the UN Peacekeeping Mission there, says an official statement. The troops will replace the already-deployed Pakistan Army contingent in the war-ravaged country as part of a rotational relief schedule. Seeing off the soldiers at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, Brig Syed Waqar Hussain Bokhari said that the Pakistan Army had a great track record of working for the restoration of peace all over the world. The services of Pakistani Blue Berets to secure lasting peace and order in Somalia, Eastern Slovenia, Bosnia, Haiti, East Timor, Liberia, Congo and Sierra Leone have improved the country's image among the comity of nations, the statement said.
