{"id":19274,"date":"2013-06-25T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=19274"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:05:02","slug":"pakistan-suspends-mountain-treks-after-militants-kill-ten-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=19274","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan suspends mountain treks after militants kill ten tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Monday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak, evacuating climbers from Nanga Parbat after 10 foreign tourists were shot dead by Islamist gunmen at a base camp.<\/p>\n<p>Well-armed and well-prepared attackers dressed in police uniforms stormed the camp at the foot of Nanga Parbat late Saturday, shooting dead the climbers and a Pakistani guide at point-blank range, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are shocked, traumatised and full of anger. Pakistan is known among the mountaineering community. It was a brutal massacre. These people were killed for no reason,&#8221; said Manzoor Hussain, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Around 40 remaining climbers on Nanga Parbat have been evacuated to Gilgit with treks on the peak now deemed unsafe, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain said there would be no further expeditions this summer and that requests for winter climbs would be subject to a security review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Monday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak, evacuating climbers from Nanga Parbat after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}