According to the United Nations (UN) Staff Union, seven Pakistanis out of 32 UN peacekeeping personnel were killed in deliberate attacks against them in 2022, The Express Tribune reports on January 22. Six of the Pakistani peacekeepers — Muhammad Ismail, Faizan Ali, Asif Ali Awan, Samiullah Khan, Muhammad Saad Nomani and Muhammad Jamil Khan — serving United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), were killed in a helicopter crash in east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Another Pakistani peacekeeper Babar Siddique, serving with MONUSCO, was killed in an attack on the Mission’s operational base in Minembwe, South Kivu, by suspected members of the Twirwaneho armed group.