PRA wants YouTube, Dailymotion registered
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Thursday served separate notices to two international video-sharing websites — YouTube and Dailymotion — and a local website Mustakbil...
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ArchiveMeeting a jinn and a fairy near Nanga Parbat
He described how he accompanied by his son chatted with a ‘Baba’ at a scenic place between a high altitude lake and a pine forest, at the base of the Nanga Parbat...
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ArchiveTwo foreign climbers go missing on Nanga Parbat
Two foreign climbers attempting to scale Nanga Parbat have gone missing, local police officials informed Dawn...
The climbers left from the base camp of Nanga Parbat in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan to summit the peak on June 18...
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ArchiveLiving Colours: ‘They call Nanga Parbat the man killer for a reason’
Kim Hong Bin, 53, was the first to climb to the top of Nanga Parbat this summer...
After climbing to the top of Lhotse, Nepal on May 19 this year and Nanga Parbat on July 7, Kim Hong Bin has to climb three more mountains towering over 8,000 meters to complete his dream of having climbed the 14 highest peaks in the world...
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ArchiveEight mountaineers climb to the top of Nanga Parbat
ISLAMABAD: Mountaineers have climbed to the top of Nanga Parbat for the first time this summer, the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) said on Saturday...
Kim Hong Bin is the first mountaineer to get to the summit of Nanga Parbat, an ACP spokesperson, Karrar Haidri told Dawn...
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PakistanBad weather hampers search for two foreign climbers missing on Nanga Parbat
The chances of survival for two climbers missing on the treacherous Nanga Parbat, also known as “Killer Mountain”, have faded as bad weather hampers search and rescue efforts, police said Friday...
A total of 14 foreign climbers were attempting to summit Nanga Parbat this year when bad weather forced them to return to base camp last week...
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ArchiveMountaineers relive Nanga Parbat triumph
ISLAMABAD: “Impossible is a word that only exists in the dictionary,” said Simone Moro, who was part of the first-ever team that climbed Nanga Parbat in the winter...
Of the 14 highest mountains, which rise beyond 8,000 metres above sea level, only two remained that had not been summited in the winter: K2 and Nanga Parbat...
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PakistanPolish climber survives fall in Nanga Parbat
ISLAMABAD: The battle for Nanga Parbat’s first winter ascent is making headlines again...
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PakistanNanga Parbat massacre convicts shifted to Adiala Jail
GILGIT: Three convicted prisoners involved in the Nanga Parbat massacre of foreign tourists were shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi from Gilgit District Jail on Friday...
Ten foreign mountaineers and a local guide were shot dead by militants, reportedly dressed in uniform of the Gilgit Scouts, in an attack on a high-altitude base camp on Nanga Parbat, near Gilgit, on June 22, 2013...
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PakistanLeaving a son with Nanga Parbat
ISLAMABAD: “A life is not measured by quantity, but by its quality,” says Hubert Wischnewski as he reminisces about his son Joel, who died while trying to climb the feared Nanga Parbat over two years ago...
After landing in Gilgit, the family hiked 13,000 feet to the Herrligkoffer’s Alpinists Cemetery, near Nanga Parbat Base Camp, where Joel Wischnewski now rests...
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Pakistan10 policemen injured in bid to arrest Nanga Parbat killer
GILGIT: A proclaimed offender in the Nanga Parbat massacre of foreign mountaineers, who is also wanted over the kidnapping of two employees of the Special Communications Organisation (SCO), fled after injuring 10 police officials in grenade attacks during a raid on his sister’s home in Diamer on Sunday night...
Take a look: Police arrest 18 over Nanga Parbat massacreWhen the police closed in, four grenades were hurled at them from the...
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WorldClimbers make first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat
Climbers from Pakistan, Spain and Italy have become the first mountaineers to scale Nanga Parbat, Pakistan's “Killer Mountain” and second highest peak after K2, in winter, a spokesman said Friday...
“Alex Txikon (Spain), Ali Sadpara (Pakistan) and Simone Moro (Italy) have reached the top of Nanga Parbat,” Karrar Haidri, spokesman of the Alpine Club of Pakistan told AFP, confirming it was the first time the summit has been reached...
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PakistanClimbers to take on Nanga Parbat once more
Their sights are set on the ninth highest mountain in the world – climbers have arrived fully prepared to tackle Nanga Parbat, and are following the same strategy they did last year: being light, fast and fully acclimatised by the start of winter...
ACP believes that the return of internationally renowned climbers to Nanga Parbat is a good sign, particularly after a terror attack at its base camp in June 2013 which left nearly a dozen...
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ArchiveNanga Parbat ascent
Six months before mountaineering season opens, a small team of four climbers, including Ali Sadpara of Pakistan, made history when they made the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat on Friday...
Take a look: Climbers make first winter ascent of Nanga ParbatOver the decades, attempts to summit Nanga Parbat have produced some of the most brutal mountaineering legends, earning it the nickname ‘killer mountain’ because more people have...
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PakistanTwo climbers trying to scale Nanga Parbat ‘go missing’
GILGIT: A two-member expedition team, comprising Polish mountaineer Tomek Mackiewicz and Frenchwoman Elisabeth Revol, appears to have gone missing while trying to scale Nanga Parbat, according to sources...
The two-member team attempting to reach the summit of Nanga Parbat in winter had started their expedition on Jan 8, the sources said...
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