All closed tourist destinations in J&K to reopen by May: CM Omar Abdullah

J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) that each the tourer destinations successful Kashmir, which were closed aft the Pahalgam onslaught “will beryllium reopened by May”. “The J&K Government has discussed the substance with the Union government,” Mr. Abdullah told the J&K Assembly.

At slightest 44 tourer destinations crossed Kashmir were closed aft a terrorist onslaught successful Pahalgam successful 2025 near 26 people, chiefly tourists, dead. Around 30 destinations person been re-opened successful a phased mode truthful far.

Mr. Abdullah besides said tourists who sojourn the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine could go a resource. “Even if we divert 10% of that footfall to places similar Bhaderwah oregon borderline tourism spots, it has the imaginable to invigorate tourism successful the Jammu region,” Mr. Abdullah said.

Mr. Abdullah said the J&K authorities intends to unfastened caller destinations and marketplace them, though it was ever hard to merchantability a caller destination. “Kashmir, erstwhile described arsenic a summertime destination, has changed. The tourism play is simply a prolonged one now,” he added.