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Senate committee to be briefed on foreign climbers' killing |
2013-07-15 |
[Dawn] The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kashmire Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan is meeting here on Monday (today) to receive a briefing on the killing last month of foreign tourists at the base of Nanga Parbat and the progress so far made in the investigations. Talking to Dawn here on Sunday, the chairman of the committee, ANP's Haji Muhammad Adeel, said the panel had invited the former inspector-general of police (IGP) and former chief secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan to hear their points of view on the terrorists' attack that gave a bad name to the country. Besides receiving briefing on the incident from the bigwigs of the GB, the chairman said the committee members would also like to know about the impact of the incident on tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan. |
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