{"id":353567,"date":"2025-04-30T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=353567"},"modified":"2025-05-01T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:03:24","slug":"tourists-return-to-kashmir-say-valley-is-safe-and-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tourists-return-to-kashmir-say-valley-is-safe-and-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists return to Kashmir, say Valley is safe and beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/04\/Tourists-return-to-Kashmir-say-Valley-is-safe-and-beautiful-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353568\" width=\"426\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/04\/Tourists-return-to-Kashmir-say-Valley-is-safe-and-beautiful-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/04\/Tourists-return-to-Kashmir-say-Valley-is-safe-and-beautiful-2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Srinagar<strong> <\/strong>&#8211; Just a week after the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, tourists are once again enjoying the scenic beauty of Jammu and Kashmir. Visitors are seen taking Shikara rides on Srinagar\u2019s Dal Lake and exploring the city with ease, and posting the videos on social media. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourists are expressing confidence in the Valley\u2019s safety and urging others to visit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was told by news channels to say negative things about Kashmir but I refused to do this,\u201d one tourist said in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nawakadal3\/status\/1916907099122024806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a>. \u201cHowever, I have been taken care of by Kashmiri people. They have offered every help. One even offered money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others said they didn\u2019t cancel their trip despite the Pahalgam incident, saying they are safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign tourists, too, appeared unfazed. According to ANI agency, a group from Croatia and Serbia, currently visiting Pahalgam, said they felt secure and praised Kashmir\u2019s natural beauty and hospitality. \u201cWe are very happy here. The people are kind, and the landscape is stunning,\u201d said Ljiljana from Croatia, quoted by ANI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a high-level security review with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, and the three service chiefs. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was also present. The meeting followed an earlier Cabinet Committee on Security session on April 23, held in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has vowed strict action against the attackers and those behind the conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar &#8211; Just a week after the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, tourists are once again enjoying the scenic beauty of Jammu and Kashmir. Visitors are seen taking Shikara rides on Srinagar\u2019s Dal Lake and exploring the city with ease, and posting the videos on social media. . Tourists are expressing confidence in the Valley\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":353568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2014],"tags":[19608,15577,19607,17670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353570,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353567\/revisions\/353570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/353568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}