Ahmedabad Times

New Delhi: United Nations will posthumously honour two Indian peacekeepers on the Worldwide Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday for making the final word sacrifice within the line of responsibility.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan, who was deployed with UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), will probably be posthumously honoured by UN Secretary Basic Antonio Guterres with the distinguished Dag Hammarskjold Medal.Guterres may also current the 2025 Army Gender Advocate of the Yr award to Main Abhilasha Barak of India for her distinctive contribution in direction of girls empowerment and gender sensitisation throughout her deployment with the UN Interim Drive in Lebanon. Main Barak, broadly recognised as the primary lady fight helicopter pilot of the Indian Military, is at the moment serving in Lebanon as commander of Feminine Engagement Group (FET) below UNIFIL.Main Barak would be the third Indian recipient of the distinguished honour, following Main Suman Gawani and Main Radhika Sen, who had been honoured for his or her commendable work whereas serving in UN peacekeeping missions.Almost 180 Indian peacekeepers have made the supreme sacrifice whereas serving below the UN flag, by far the best quantity from any troop-contributing nation.India is the second largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping power, with greater than 4,200 of its army and police personnel, together with 155 girls — at the moment serving UN peace operations throughout missions in Abyei, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan and Western Sahara. At current, over 50,000 civilian, army and police peacekeepers are serving below the UN flag in peacekeeping missions throughout a number of the world’s most advanced environments.