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Chiranjeevee Pokhrel For DCnepal, March 20 2016 - Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has signed the death warrants of a dozen of terrorists including Irfan Ullah who was responsible for killing of a mountaineer team along with Nepali mountaineer Sona Sherpa at the base camp of Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan. Sona Sherpa, a climber from Nepal, had already scaled Nanga Parbat in 2009; but he had been back in June 2013 to help out a team of Chinese climbers. He was described as ’kind and a gifted leader’ and ’an excellent guide and a wonderful person’.

"He admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was tried on 3 charges and sentenced to death," said the concerned. The other ten victims included one Chinese-born American, two Chinese nationals, three Ukranians, two Slovaks and one Lithuanian. Sehr Khan, one of the survivors of the vicious attack, said that some men, in vain, tried to save themselves by yelling "I am not American! I am not American!"


Chinese national Zhang Jingchuan survived the terrorist attacks to share the moment of horror, "We were sleeping when they caught us. Our hands were tied and we were made kneel down. After they searched everyone, the massacre began. A shot was aimed at my head, but it missed. And I began to run and got to the valley." As about 50 mountaineers had not already gone up the 26,660-feet peak, the death toll could not rise.