INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Major Fozia Parveen on patrol
Photo: UNPakistani soldier Major Fozia Parveen is doing the country proud as she serves the United Nations& peacekeeping mission in Cyprus
among other female military and staff officers.Turning to Twitter, Pakistan representative to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi lauded Major
Fozia for her services in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.&We are proud of our female (and male) peacekeepers who serve in UN
Missions.Major Fozia Perveen is serving in theUN mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP) , seen here on a patrol in the Buffer Zone.Picture thanks to
the UN, [sic]& reads her tweet.Pakistan earlier crossed the target set by the UN from zero to 15 percent deployment of female military and
staff officers in the peacekeeping mission in only 18 months.&We believe, increased participation of female peacekeepers, and encouraging
more women to take up mediation roles helps in the stabilization and reconstruction phases of conflicts,& she had said earlier in April
while participating in a debate of ‘Women in Peacekeeping.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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