(22 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 15 May 2025
1. Various of empty shikaras (boats) on Dal lake
2. Various of shikaras on lake, empty houseboats
3. Wide of boatman Gulzar Ahmed talking to another boatman
4. Various of a boatman using his phone on his boat
5. SOUNDBITE (Kashmiri) Gulzar Ahmed, boatman:
“Where we are standing, there used to be a line of tourists waiting to take the boat ride. We row these boats because our livelihood depends on tourism. As you can see, no one is here now, and we are left without any business. We pray to the Almighty that tourism resumes as it used to, because we are left with no work."
6. Various of hotel exterior
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 16 May 2025
7. Wide of Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, vice president of the Kashmir Hotel Owners and Restaurant Association speaking to staff in his hotel
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Vice President of the Kashmir Hotel Owners and Restaurant Association:
"After 7 May, it was nearly full. They started the war, then the cancellations started booming. Then everybody (tourists) said, ‘no, now there’s no way. We have to stop at this time’.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 15 May 2025
9. Wide of traffic, empty restaurant
10. Various of empty chairs and tables outside a restaurant
11. Wide of locked gate of a restaurant
12. Close of locked gate
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pahalgam, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 15 May 2025
13. Wide of an empty tourist building next to Lidder River
14. Wide of empty chair next to signboard reding (English): “Love Pahalgam”
15. Closed shops
16. Wide of closed restaurants
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 16 May 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Vice President of the Kashmir Hotel Owners and Restaurant Association:
"So many people have gotten involved in tourism because for the last two, three years, everybody knows that tourism was booming. It was increasing and increasing. And most of the people thought this is the thing we should invest in. And they invested. They got loans from the banks, they borrowed, they sold their things and they started making small hotels, homestays. Tourism says, ‘OK, you start homestay’. They invested in homestays, got some things. But the problem comes now. Now those people are really in bad shape.”
18. Various of security on street
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Vice President, Kashmir Hotel Owners and Restaurant Association:
"Tourism needs peace. Once peace is there, then only the tourism will start. And the peace is not going to be there, if nothing will happen, the problem is still there.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir – 15 May 2025
20. Wide of traffic next to Mughal Garden
21. Empty ticket counters
22. Exterior of empty entrance gate of Mughal Garden
STORYLINE:
There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty. Resorts in the snowclad mountains have fallen silent. Hundreds of cabs are parked and idle.
It’s the fallout of last month’s gun massacre that left 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir, followed by tit-for-tat military strikes by India and Pakistan, bringing the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of their third war over the region.
Lines of colorful hand-carved boats, known as shikaras, lie deserted, mostly anchored still on Srinagar’s normally bustling Dal Lake.
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