<Tr> <Th> Ambassador </Th> <Td> Maliha Lodhi </Td> </Tr> <P> Pakistan officially joined the United Nations (UN) on 30 September 1947 just over a month after its independence from the British Empire . Today, it is a charter member and participates in all of the UN's specialised agencies and organisations . Pakistan has been elected seven times (tied with Colombia and India) into the UN Security Council, with the most recent term in 2013 . It is also one of the countries which has had a diplomat, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, serve a term as the President of the United Nations General Assembly . </P> <P> Pakistan maintains a permanent mission to the UN, which is currently headed by Ambassador Maliha Lodhi in New York . There is a second mission based at the UNO office in Geneva, Switzerland . </P> <P> The Pakistani military has played a key role in the UN's peacekeeping programme in different parts of the world, most prominently in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Congo and Liberia . As of 2009, Pakistan stood as the largest contributor of troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions in the world, and was followed by Bangladesh and India . </P>

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