Islamic militants disguised as policemen killed 10 Pakistani foreign climbers and a guide one of the foundations of the world's highest mountain in northern Pakistan blatant attack on their camp overnight, officials said.
Pakistani Taliban claimed Nanga Parbat carried out the attack to avenge the death of their deputy head of the U.S. drone strike last month.
The area was largely peaceful, hundreds of kilometers (miles) from the Taliban's main sanctuary along the Afghan border. But militant groups have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years, has demonstrated its ability to strike almost anywhere in the country.
Interior Minister Chowdhury Rini Sal Ali Khan said that the Taliban kidnapped two local guides to take them to a remote stronghold Gilgit - Baltisan started their attack. A guide was killed, and has been detained for questioning. Uniformed assailants disguised himself used the Gilgit Scounts, a paramilitary force, patrol area, Khan said.
Saturday 23:00 or so, about 15 gunmen attacked the camp, Alpine Club of Pakistan, speaking with the surviving guide, Sawal Fakir said. First, they beat climbing away any cellular and satellite phones, and everyone they could find the money, the club said in a statement.
Some climbers and guides can run away, but those have not been shot, said the club. Fakir is able to hide a satellite phone, and eventually use it to inform the authorities of attacks.
Gilgit - Baltistan, Home Secretary, Attaur Rahman said that 10 foreigners and a Pakistani killed in the attack. Dead foreigners, including three Ukrainians, Slovaks, two Chinese, one Lithuanian, Nepal and China - the United States, according to Rahman and tour operators to work with mountaineering. Agency spokesman Matt Boland in the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad confirmed that an American citizen among the dead, but can not say that this is one pair of Chinese nation.
Shooting - Foreigners in Pakistan in recent years, one of the most serious attacks - occurred in an amazing country that has seen a small part of violence against tourists, although it has a radical Sunni Muslim minority Shia faction in recent years experienced attacks.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they Jundul race seminary school were shot in retaliation for the death of Taliban deputy leader, Waliur Rahman, on May 29 in the U.S. unmanned piloting an aircraft attacks.
"Kill foreigners, we want to take a message for the world to play their role, thus ending the drone attacks," Ahsan told the AP reporters Tong Guo and Dian Huacong a secret location.
The main attack on the United States insists the CIA to kill al-Qaeda and other militants threaten the West, as well as efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan. In a recent speech, President Obama outlined a highly confidential process more stringent restrictions.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who wants to pursue with militants threaten his country's peace talks, has always insisted on the U.S. to stop drone strikes, saying they violated Pakistan's sovereignty and are counterproductive because they often kill Stoke innocent civilians and anti-American sentiment in this country 180 million people.
Sharif attacked the camp responded vowed "not tolerate cruel and inhuman acts, will do everything to make visitors to a safe place in Pakistan."
Officials expressed concern about the attack will cause a serious blow to the tourism industry in Pakistan has been struggling, because high levels of violence in the country.
Interior Minister promised to take all measures to ensure the safety of tourists, because he solved the National Assembly passed a resolution condemning the attack.
Gilgit - Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah said, "A lot of tourists come to this area, in the summer, our local people to earn money from these people,." "This will not only affect our region, but will adversely affect all of Pakistan."
He said the camp by the police and paramilitary troops cordoned off the area after the attack, a military helicopter searched the area.
Volodymyr Lakomov, Ukrainian Ambassador to Pakistan also condemned the attack and said, "We hope that the Pakistani authorities will do their utmost to find the culprits of this crime."
Many foreign tourists away from Pakistan, as the country's reputation as a dangerous place. However, the relatively small number of powerful foreigners during the summer to Gilgit - Baltistan, marvel at the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges, including K2, the second highest mountain in the world towering peaks.
There are several attempts to climb them. The world's ninth highest peak, Nanga Parbat 8,126 m, (26,660 feet) high and is notoriously difficult summit. It is known as "killer mountain", because in the past many climbers died.
Pakistan has a very close relationship with China and its neighbors for any problems that may damage the sensitive relationship. Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Pakistani officials had reached the representatives from China and Ukraine to convey their sympathies.
Khan, Minister of the Interior said that the government suspended the executive secretary and top police chief after Gilgit - Baltistan attacks, and ordered an investigation into the incident.
Shooting in the last decade the most serious attacks on foreigners in Pakistan one. In the southern city of Karachi in a suicide attack outside the hotel killed 11 French engineers in 2002. 2009, gunmen attacked Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore, killing six Pakistani policemen, a driver and several players injured.
 



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