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Posts published in “Day: September 27, 2014

Expeditions to Nanga Parbat take a hit after 2013 massacre

By Shehzad Anwar / Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Sept 27th, 2014. ISLAMABAD / GILGIT:   The government of Gilgit–Baltistan (G-B) is finding it hard to deal with the scars left by the Nanga Parbat massacre last year. The June 22, 2013 attack at the base camp for the 8,126-metre-high Nanga Parbat, Pakistan’s second-highest mountain, was one of the deadliest assaults on foreigners in the country. At least 10 foreign climbers and their Pakistani guide…