RAWALPINDI: A sepoy of Pakistan Army has bagged a bronze medal in the 58th World Military Boxing Championship held in Russia’s capital Moscow, said Inter-Services Public Relations.
According to details, Pakistani soldier Zia Bilawal won the bronze medal in the 83kg category in World Military Boxing Championship. Boxers from 36 countries across the globe participated in the championship.
Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Babar Iftikhar has lauded Zia Bilawal for showing extra ordinary performance at the international area and uplifting the country’s name.
Last year, United Nations had awarded a medal to a Pakistani soldier posthumously awarded for his peacekeeping services rendered in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations ISPR, Amir Aslam was to be conferred the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal, a posthumous award which is given by the UN to officers or civilians who lose their lives while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
ISPR further had said Aslam was a resident of Kotli in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and was serving in the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in the Congo. He was awarded the medal by the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres in a virtual ceremony held at the New York headquarters to mark Peacekeepers Day.
