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| India-Pakistan |
| Taliban planning attacks on tourists in Pakistan: officials |
| 2014-01-28 |
| [DAWN] The Pak Taliban may be planning attacks on tourists in the country's mountainous north, where 10 foreign climbers were massacred last year, officials warned Monday. Thousands of tourists visit Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral each year, many drawn by the area's impressive mountains and glaciers, including the world's second highest peak K2. Pakistain has seen a surge in myrmidon attacks in recent weeks and officials are warning these may spread to the north as the spring tourist season gets under way. "The interior ministry has officially informed Gilgit-Baltistan that the Pak Taliban can strike the region," a bigwig of the Gilgit-Baltistan administration told foreign news agency AFP on condition of anonymity. "The interior ministry has warned of suicide kabooms and attacks on tourists in the region." Another official, also speaking anonymously, confirmed the warning. The climbing industry in northern Pakistain was badly hit by the attack on foreign mountaineers at the foot of Pakistain's second highest mountain Nanga Parbat in June last year. It was the deadliest assault on foreigners in the country for a decade. Those killed were an American with dual Chinese citizenship, three Ukrainians, two Chinese, two Slovakians, one Lithuanian and a Nepalese. A Pak guide was also killed. Police in Gilgit-Baltistan said they were not aware of any specific threat by the Pak Taliban but were remaining vigilant. "We have enhanced security as part of a routine exercise, keeping in mind the latest bout of violence throughout the country," the deputy chief of Gilgit-Baltistan police, Sher Ali, told AFP. Police have tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 18 people over the Nanga Parbat killings but sources in the investigation team formed to probe the matter say they have detained only three actual perpetrators. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Danggit, and somebody had just told me the mountain biking was to die for. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-28 17:50 |
| #3 And the occasional Wahhabi lecturer. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-28 13:38 |
| #2 It isn't all hate lecturing. Sometimes they read the Krayon, or memorize wall charts. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-28 10:21 |
| #1 When you are taught hate from a young age what else can you expect Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-01-28 10:08 |