Mekal wrote
Maybe he ignored them. That's what you are inclined to do if you have 30,000 hours
Really? I think we disagree. Most of the high time guys I know are not inclined to ignore things.
I am sure he got a terrain warning -- maybe right after ATC warned him. He apparently said he had the field in sight. He should have been looking at the Margall hills on his right! But we know what happens. Your first reaction to the EGPWS is disbelief (so it must be a false warning); then you wait another five second almost frozen; then you execute an insufficiently aggressive GA and don't clear the ridge-line.
You sure KNOW a lot. Are you in Islamabad?