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Contingent of 170

returns from Bosnia

LAHORE: A contingent of 170 Pakistani troops returned home on Monday by a chartered plane after completion of their tenure with the United Nations in the war ravaged country of Bosnia.

A same number of Pakistani troops left later in the afternoon by the same flight to relieve those troops who have completed their tenure of peacekeeping in Bosnia.

At the Lahore Airport, the troops were received and seen off by the senior army officers.

The airlift of the troops, which is expected to be completed by end of this month, is essentially of relief and rotation of the Pakistani peacekeepers in Bosnia.-APP