By Shabbir Mir in Express Tribune, May 21
GILGIT / LAHORE: Monday was a day of opposite reactions: While President Asif Ali Zardari congratulated Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali, the two young mountaineers who successfully scaled the world’s highest peak, lawmakers in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly session remained strangely mum over the achievement.
In a statement released by the President’s Secretariat on Monday, President Zardari said Baig made the entire nation proud by becoming the first Pakistani woman to climb Everest.
A disquieting silence: Despite the national acclaim, members of the Gilgit-Baltistan legislative assembly session made absolutely no mention of the siblings’ achievement.
No small feat: In the past, only two other Pakistani mountaineers, Nazir Sabir and Hassan Sadpara, have scaled Mount Everest.
Baig and Ali, who belong to the small town of Shimshal in the Hunza Valley, scaled the 8,848 metre peak early on Sunday after a gruelling expedition in rough weather.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/552212/on-top-of-the-world-zardari-lauds-g-b-legislators-ignore-mountaineers-baig-ali/
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