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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Saturday (October 18, 2025) said his government's efforts to bring backmost tourists to the Union territory tin enactment lone aft the tourist spots closed successful the aftermath of Pahalgam panic attack are reopened.
"First, we person to reopen those places which person been shut. We did not unopen these places successful 35 years. When the militancy was astatine its peak, Drang oregon Doodhpathri were not closed, the precocious areas of Gulmarg were not shut, Aru vale was not closed," helium told reporters successful Srinagar.
Mr. Abdullah said immoderate courageousness is needed to beryllium shown and unfastened tourer spots and beforehand them effectively.
Addressing disapproval that his authorities was focusing excessively overmuch connected tourism, the main curate said, "We are trying astatine our ain level contempt the information that we are subjected to taunts that wherefore are we doing truthful overmuch tourism promotion? "We cognize that homes of lakhs of radical beryllium connected it and we privation tourism to beryllium restored to the level that was determination earlier the Pahalgam attack."
The main curate said his authorities has sent teams extracurricular the state to beforehand tourism, pointing retired that a large delegation is successful Singapore to reconstruct tourism from Southeast Asia. They volition besides spell to Berlin and London adjacent period for tourism promotion, helium added.
"If we speech astir wrong the country, Nasir (Aslam Wani) had precocious gone to Udaipur for promotions. We are not leaving immoderate chromatic unturned . I cannot accidental that the Centre has not supported us, but, the world is that unfortunately, we are talking successful 2 voices from wrong J&K.
"On 1 hand, the elected authorities talks astir tourism promotion, but connected the other, the unelected authorities has kept a ample portion of Kashmir closed for tourism," helium said.
Mr. Abdullah said if they is acrophobic to reopen celebrated resorts similar Doodhpathri, Drang and immoderate parts of Gulmarg, "it means determination is danger. That is the crushed the tourists are not coming."
