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Moinuddin and his driver were shot inside their military jeep by two gunmen on a motorbike in the Pakistani capital.
The brazen killing in a smart residential district capped a spike in attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists that has left over 185 people dead this month in the frontline state in the US-led terror fight.
Moinuddin had been a key member of the UN's 9,000-strong peacekeeping mission to Sudan, known as UNMIS, which is propping up a faltering 2005 peace accord to end a brutal north-south civil war that killed over two million people and displaced 4.6 million more.
The UN chief sent "his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family" and colleagues of Moinuddin, who joined UNMIS five months ago, after it assumed the duty of monitoring a truce between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
Ban also praised "the contribution of the government of Pakistan to peacekeeping efforts in Sudan and elsewhere," adding that he "hopes that the perpetrators of the attack will soon be brought to justice," according to the statement.
Pakistan is one of the top troop contributors to UN peacekeeping efforts around the world.
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The brazen killing in a smart residential district capped a spike in attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists that has left over 185 people dead this month in the frontline state in the US-led terror fight.
Moinuddin had been a key member of the UN's 9,000-strong peacekeeping mission to Sudan, known as UNMIS, which is propping up a faltering 2005 peace accord to end a brutal north-south civil war that killed over two million people and displaced 4.6 million more.
The UN chief sent "his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family" and colleagues of Moinuddin, who joined UNMIS five months ago, after it assumed the duty of monitoring a truce between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
Ban also praised "the contribution of the government of Pakistan to peacekeeping efforts in Sudan and elsewhere," adding that he "hopes that the perpetrators of the attack will soon be brought to justice," according to the statement.
Pakistan is one of the top troop contributors to UN peacekeeping efforts around the world.
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