After local tourists: Pakistan hopes to attract foreigners

ISLAMABAD: Tourism in Pakistan is gradually recovering from the dark era of post September 11, 2001.

The country hopes to once again attract international tourists who had deserted it for the past 15 years, according to an article published in “Asialyst” a Paris-based website.

Though in small numbers, foreign travellers have started returning to Pakistan, one of the countries most affected by terrorism.

In Karimabad, Hunza Valley, a hostel by the name of Hunza Inn is housing some Chinese tourists and a lone Italian, Fabrizio, who declined to give his surname.

After travelling extensively in India, Fabrizio was discovering the country for the first time. “It’s true that my family was afraid when I told them I was leaving for Pakistan,” he said. “But in reality, we don’t feel any danger here at all, there is no problem.”

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2016.