Pakistan Army is stationed in Congo as a part of UN peacekeepers. Now rather then contributing towards peace they are found involved in henious acts of gold trafficking etc.
A United Nations inquiry has confirmed that a Pakistani peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of Congo was involved in smuggling gold.
A Pakistani contingent was accused of selling gold and guns between 2005 and 2006 to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm.
The investigation, which began in early 2006, found no evidence of gun-running.
Pakistani officials have previously denied all the accusations, describing the allegations as “baseless”.
In May the UN said it would seek to discipline anyone who had compromised peacekeeping in DR Congo by trafficking in gold or guns.
Now the head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, has told the BBC: "The investigation has found no evidence of gun smuggling but it has identified an individual who seems to have facilitated gold smuggling.
“We have shared the report with the concerned troop contributor and I’m confident they will take the required action. This issue is closed.” ‘Overstretched’
This is the latest in a series of scandals involving UN peacekeepers.
Mr Guehenno said he thought UN peacekeeping was overstretched, with 100,000 peacekeepers in the field but a support staff of just 1,000 at headquarters.
I was there in the shop. I saw it with my own eyes
That was a factor in continuing problems with discipline, he added.
The BBC’s UN correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, says that although the UN can send misbehaving peacekeepers home, the countries that provide the troops are responsible for their conduct.
The Pakistani battalion at the centre of the claims was based in and around the mining town of Mongbwalu, in the north-east of the country, in 2005.
They helped bring peace to an area that had previously seen bitter fighting between the Lendu and Hema ethnic groups.
But witnesses said Pakistani officers had also supplied weapons to notorious militia commanders in return for gold.
As the trade developed, the officers brought in the Congolese army and then Indian traders from Kenya.
The UN began a major investigation after being alerted by Human Rights Watch in late 2005. A UN official connected with the inquiry has previously told the BBC there seemed to have been a plan to bury the results, in order to avoid alienating Pakistan - the largest contributor of troops to the UN
Chintu, You are getting desprate.. you should have also posted the following…
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Three Indian Army officers on UN Congo mission accused of rape
LAHORE: Three Indian Army officers deputed to the United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo have been accused of rape, according to a report published in The Indian Express on Tuesday. A lieutenant colonel and two majors of the Indian Army, presently with the North Kivu brigade of the Mission of the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), were detained last Wednesday by South African police after a woman resident of Plettenberg Bay in Pretoria charged them with rape.
The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka - UN Scandals ? too many to mention
Congo. Indian soldiers traded gold with these killers, bought drugs from them and - astonishingly - flew a UN helicopter into the Virunga National Park, where they exchanged ammunition for ivory. These allegations are contained in the report of an investigation dated February 2008.
chintu, with all due respect. What would you like to discuss on this topic? Please start and we'll follow. Keeping in mind it's old news, the article is over an year old, so unless that very officer is still serving. It's sort of pointless.
Though i can see why you opened the thread. I have no intention of closing it, if it's justified and you can lead us to talk about something on it.
"The investigation has found no evidence of gun smuggling but it has identified an individual **who **seems to have facilitated gold smuggling.
"We have shared the report with the concerned troop contributor and I'm confident they will take the required action. This issue is closed."
I know english is not your first language, but the title does not go very well with statements in your own 'proof'
an individual is not multiple people is it?
hmm hmmmm
but hey, as Un says, issue is now closed, so its closed :)
Teggy: u can close it but dont u feel there is lot of mudslinging going on GS now a days. previously there was quas /PD and now a whole bunch of people have degraded themselves to their level including me.
Under "World Affair" head more then 90% alive threads are related to India's internal Affair. So the "World Affair" should be renamed to "India's Internal Affair". This clearly suggest that India occupies a lot of space in sub continent peoples mind, as they can't think beyond India.
This clearly suggest that India occupies a lot of space in sub continent peoples mind, as they can't think beyond India.
Just Pakistanis with inferiority complexes. Most Pakistanis have a great jealousy for India. Their lives are preoccupied with thoughts of how powerful and sucessful India is. Deep down inside many wish that they were still Indian.
Just Pakistanis with inferiority complexes. Most Pakistanis have a great jealousy for India. Their lives are preoccupied with thoughts of how powerful and sucessful India is. Deep down inside many wish that they were still Indian.
Most Pakistanis find it insulting if they are mistaken for Indians.
Most Pakistanis find it insulting if they are mistaken for Indians.
I'm talking about something deeper than knee jerk hatred. You have to look at why Pakistanis hate them. You have to look at why they cant stop thinking about them. Our preoccupation with India might be full of hatred, but it's a hatred manifested from deeply embedded jealousies.
There's a psychological rationale behind this phenomenon of secretly admiring what you, on the surface of things, despise.
I'm talking about something deeper than knee jerk hatred. You have to look at why Pakistanis hate them. You have to look at why they cant stop thinking about them. Our preoccupation with India might be full of hatred, but it's a hatred manifested from deeply embedded jealousies.
There's a psychological rationale behind this phenomenon of secretly admiring what you, on the surface of things, despise.
An Indians come on bad paki board to tell paki that paki hate Indian ...LOL.... Indian obsession with bad pakis has no bounds, its off the chart....
oho bhai, with all these "anti-Indian" (and countering "anti-Pakistan") threads popping up, people posting "Pakistan this Pakistan that" or "India this India that" Chintu decided to take it to next level and started digging dirt of the past.
