Militants Kill Nine Foreign Climbers in Pakistan
From the Blog pakistanisforpeace By Haq Nawaz Khan and Tim Craig for The Boston Globe [image: Image] Gunmen stormed a camp on Pakistan's second-largest mountain Sunday, killing nine foreign climbers, including a US citizen, in a brazen assault that could deal a blow to the country's efforts to jump-start its tourism industry. The Pakistani Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack, calling it retribution for a suspected US drone strike last month that killed Wali ur-Rehman, the second in command of the terrorist group. ''Through this killing we gave a message to the international community to ask US to stop drone strikes,'' said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman. The attack in northern Pakistan at Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-tallest mountain, occurred around 1 a.m. as the climbers and their guidpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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