Tourism and terrorism!!!

Pakistan tourism has a very immense importance domestically and internationally. Tourism is an important source of revenue generation and this makes it an important part for Pakistan economic development. Being nation with diverse culture, seasons and landscape Pakistan attracted lot of tourist from all over the globe.

But due to terrorism in Pakistan the terrorist attacks and few of the American tourists were killed which made a image of Pakistan that it is a terrorist country and people stopped visiting Pakistan.  After the attack on Sirilankan team even foreign teams stopped visiting Pakistan so Pakistan is left out.

Even the main hotels in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) are deserted and very few foreign tourists can be seen. These places were used to host domestic and foreign guests but since there are no foreign guests the administration is totally finished.

The flow of foreign tourists started to decline in the mid-nineties when different extremist organizations emerged in parts of the NWFP. Organizations like the banned Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariah-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) presented Islam in such a way that foreign tourists lost interest in visiting these areas.

As a result of such happenings, tourism started declining in the Northern Areas and other parts of Pakistan. The fact is that the tourism places received a great setback due to the war on terror.

 Pakistan need to take advantage of its beauty and need international support to make areas tourist attraction again and have to provide security and trust in the mind of tourist to again attract tourist from all over the world.

 

ASIF RAZA BURANA

SEC D 

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