By Tanveer Ahmed in Daily Times, July 16 ISLAMABAD: The foreign tourists at Nanga Parbat base camp in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) were killed to avenge the killing of Waliur Rehman, the senior commander of Tehreek-e-Talban Pakistan (TTP), the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan was informed on Monday. The committee, which met under Senator Haji Adeel, was told that the four persons, nabbed by law enforcement agencies, have revealed that they had…
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By Peer Muhammad in The Express Tribune, July 16 ISLAMABAD: Arrested suspects reveal that the attack on foreign tourists was carried out on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan directives to avenge the killing of the group’s top commander, Waliur Rehman, who died in a drone attack, said a top officer of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) on Monday. Chief Secretary of G-B, Mohammad Younus Dhaga, was briefing the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Relations over the killing of ten foreign tourists…