epa03756540 (FILE) A file picture dated 17 May 2005 shows a view of the Nanga Parbat, with 8126m the 9th highest peak in the world and the westernmost mountain of the Himalayas. Islamist militants have killed ten foreigners and a local cook in an attack on a Himalayan camp in northern Pakistan, official said on 23 June 2013. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Diamer district of the semi-autonomous Gilgit-Baltistan region near the border with China. The tourists were killed by Taliban. The attack was carried out by our squad Jundullah Hafsa, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in a text message to media. He added that the attack was to avenge the killing of Pakistani Taliban deputy chief Mufti Waliur Rehman last month in a US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district. It was the first attack on foreign mountaineers in Gilgit-Baltistan, where Sunni extremists often clash with members of the Shiite minority. EPA/OLIVIER MATTHYS