Minister Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said on Sunday that Pahalgam Hill in South Kashmir was “busy with tourists from various parts of the country that competed for space with local pickers.
Abdullah shared pictures of crowded roads of the famous hilly station in rainy weather June 22, Sunday, exactly two months after a deadly terrorist attack in the Baisaran valley, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists.
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“The last time I was in Pahalgam, I was going through the market that was everything but abandoned.
Tourism was seriously affected in Pahalgam and after a deadly terrorist attack on April 22. However, the number of tourism has increased over the last two weeks. Some of the locals who spoke to Livemint said that other tourists began to come to the Kashmir valley after the inauguration of the first Vande Bharat train in Kashmir at the beginning of this month.
Train Kashmir Vande Bharat
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi 6 June launched the first Vande Bharat Express train to Kashmir from Jammu after completing the project 272 km Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla.
Modi marked train services from the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi (SMVD) railway station in Katra Jammu to Srinagar, Kashmir. On this occasion, Modi also identified another train from Srinagar to Katra.
“It is very satisfactory to see the efforts my colleagues and I slowly bear fruit,” Omar said.
Campaign -led cm to revive tourism
Last month, Abdullah took himself to lead the campaign to revive tourism in the valley. May 28 Abdullah chaired the meeting of administrative secretaries and other highest officials in Gulmarg Health Resort to attract tourists back to Kashmir. The day before he organized in Pahalgam, instead of a terrorist attack on April 22, April 22.
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Visits to the main minister have fulfilled a new hope among the parties and increased chances of turnover after the tourist season of this year due to a terrorist attack.
Abdullah was seen by bike by bike in Pahalgam and ride a gondola (cable car) in Gulmarg, except for the meetings he chaired.
“A dil of umeed it naji”.
In Gulmarg, talking to the media in Wednsday, Abdullah quoted a two -turn Pakistani poet Urda Faiz Ahmad Faiz:
Čapot freely translates to: “The heart is not hopeless, for now only defeated. The evening of sadness is long, but after all it is only in the evening.” Urdu poetry lovers quote this and other two -wing as an example of Faiz’s ability to mix sadness with durability.
It is very satisfactory to see the efforts my colleagues and I slowly insert with fruit.
Since June 14, parks and other tourist places in Kashmir were closed after 22 April, and the terrorist attack of Pahalgam was also reopened by a gradual way. The Government of Jamm and Kashmir closed 48 of 87 tourist destinations through the Kashmir valley after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam. The reopening of these parks also helped to revive tourism, the locals said.
Two weeks after the terrorist attack of Pahalgam India 7. It can make accurate strikes on at least nine terrorist camps in Pakistan in what is now known as the “Sindoor operation”. India and Pakistan enjoyed four days of military action after Sindoor operation. Both nations agreed to understand to stop a military action on 10 May.
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