Well done Samina, Ali for climbing Everest: Zardari

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President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Pakistani woman Mountaineer Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali on climbing the world’s highest peak Mount Everest.

In a message of felicitation, the president lauding the will and determination of Baig said that she had made the nation proud and had earned laurels for the country by becoming the first Pakistani women to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 meters.

Congratulating the women of the country and indeed the entire nation on the achievement, the president expressed confidence that the young Baig will be followed as a role model by women of the country and that her gigantic achievement will ignite zeal in women folk of Pakistan.

While paying glowing tribute to the two young Pakistani mountaineers from Gilgit Baltistan, Samina Baig (21) and Mirza Ali (29), the president termed the youth a great future asset of the country and said that Pakistani was a talented nation with all the potential to rise in every field of life and urged for the proper grooming and guiding of the talent of Pakistanis especially the youth and women of the county to maximise its true potential.

The president expressed hope that both Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali would continue to work hard and keep the flag of the country flying high in the world of mountaineering.