2013 Nanga Parbat massacre militants were also responsible for the February 2012 Kohistan Shia Massacre, in which 18 Shi'ite Muslims were killed. Navid further said that intelligence agencies played a pivotal role in the arrests and that further information would be released in a couple of days. The Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, Younis Dagha, announced that among the arrested on August 19, 2013, was the terrorist Qaribullah ("Hasan"), a former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader of the Chilas unit, who might be the mastermind of the Nanga Parbat attack, as well as M Nabi (Qari Husnain), who was a suspect in the murder of government officials
2013 Nanga Parbat massacre up four different cases to give an impression that all the perpetrators have been arrested but the real perpetrators are still at large", he said. On February 27, 2015, four inmates made an attempt to escape the Gilgit district jail. Of the two who managed to flee, one was alleged to have been involved in the Nanga Parbat tourist shooting incident. Security agencies started an operation to capture the escapees but the escaped inmates had not been captured. A reward of Rs. 2 million was also announced by the Gilgit Baltistan Home Secretary, Sibtain Ahmed, for people who helped the