Gunmen kill nine tourists in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack in Pakistan’s normally peaceful Himalayan region, spotlighting violence just weeks after a new civilian government took office vowing to quell militancy.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif swiftly condemned the attack in an area of the far-flung north not previously associated with violence or Islamist militancy that plagues other parts of the country.