Rows of empty houseboats in Dal lake, one of the major tourist destination seen from a mountain in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, India, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Rows of ...

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Surekha Dube, left, and Sunita Kamble, tourists from the Indian state of Maharashtra, take a selfie inside a deserted garden in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, India, Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

Updated: May 21, 2025 / 10:17 PM PDT SRINAGAR, India (AP) — There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty.

Updated: May 22, 2025 / 01:17 AM EDT SRINAGAR, India (AP) — There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty.

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 ...