Ban Ki-moon Appoints Pakistani General as new UN Military Adviser
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a senior Pakistani General as the new Military Adviser of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), his spokesperson announced Monday.

Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha will succeed the acting Military Adviser, General Per Arne Five of Norway, Spokesperson Michele Montas told a regular news briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.

General Pasha will hold the rank of Assistant Secretary General, the highest-ever military appointment given to a Pakistani in the DPKO.

For the past two years, General Pasha served as the Director-General of Military Operations at the Pakistani Army’s Central Headquarters, where he was in overall command of all Army operations inside the country’s borders and all peacekeeping deployments.

From 2001 to 2002, he was the Contingent and Sector Commander with the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and was responsible for the disarmament and demobilization of former rebel groups.

In the Pakistan Army, General Pasha has commanded an infantry division, a mechanized infantry brigade and an infantry battalion, and has also served as the Chief Instructor of the Command and Staff College.●