President Asif Ali Zardari felicitated Deputy Superintendent Shahzadi Gulfam on winning the UN award for International Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2011. Ms Gulfam is the first Pakistani female to win this prestigious award. In his felicitation message, the President while congratulating her on winning the prestigious award said that it is also an honour for Pakistani women as well as for the country.
Ms Gulfam is the first Pakistani female to be deployed in the UN Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997. In 2010, she was redeployed in the UN Mission in Timor-Leste as the UN Police Team leader posted in Timor-Leste National Police Vulnerable Persons Unit in the capital Dili.
The Award for which twelve applications representing female officers from eleven countries serving in the UN peace mission world-wide were submitted, was delivered at the opening ceremony of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP) annual training conference on 21 August 2011 in Lexington, Kentucky USA.
The President said that time and again our women have proved that the given conducive environment they can excel in any field of human endeavour. The President also said that laurels won by Pakistani women enhanced the country's image abroad and gave us reason to feel proud. The President wished her success in her professional career and her future life.-PR