Ex-army officer becomes fourth Pakistani to scale Everest
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Col (retd) Abdul Jabbar Bhatti became a fourth Pakistani to scale Mount Everest on Sunday.
Pakistani mountaineers Nazir Sabir, Hasan Sadpara and Samina Baig have cowed a world’s top towering before him. Another Pakistani mountaineer, Saad Mehmood, is also attempting to scale a 8,848-metre high peak.
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Col (retd) Bhatti has already perceived a Pride of Performance and a Tamgha-e-Basalat medals from a Government of Pakistan. Before attempting to conquer Everest, he successfully scaled a 8,051-metre Broad Peak in 1985, a 8,035-metre Gasherbrum II in 1986 and a 7,027-metre Spantik Peak in 2012. All 3 of them distortion in a Pakistani partial of a Karakoram Range.
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