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India-Pakistan
2007 to be ‘Visit Pakistan Year’
2006-03-19
Peshawar: The Pakistan government has decided to celebrate 2007 as the “Visit Pakistan Year” in a bid to attract foreign tourists and promote the country’s tourism industry, the country’s Tourism Minister Dr Ghazi Gulab Jamal said.

The country is also mulling to open the route that Alexander the Great used during his invasion of sub-continent.

The federal tourism ministry has planned a number of events to further boost and attract domestic as well as international tourists to visit and explore the inspiring tourism sites of the country, The News quoted Jamal as saying in an interview with a news agency.

He that said Pakistan was gifted with rich cultural and natural beauty, which was a great source of inspiration for the foreign tourist to visit and explore it.

As tourism had become an industry, it needed more attention towards its promotion to make it a productive tool in the development of national economy, the minister said while stressing on the need on the role of local community in improving the industry by extending visitors maximum care and love.

According to the minister, establishing skiing resort in the northern areas, Ghandara week and Sufi festivals were the major events planned to attract local and foreign tourists.
Posted by:john

#23  Lonely Planet has a video that includes Pakistan and (I think) parts of Afghanistan and Iran. Our intrepid traveler managed to arrive at a Shiite city on one of the Death of Hussein bloodletting festivals, and cut his visit short. He was obviously queasy.
Posted by: mom   2006-03-19 21:52  

#22  What the Indian army thinks about it?
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-03-19 21:44  

#21  Old Spook: Whahahahahaa..... Welcome to FOB Paklandia.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-03-19 21:10  

#20  Advertised only in proctologist monthly.
Posted by: pihkalbadger   2006-03-19 21:04  

#19  The Pakistan government has decided to celebrate 2007 as the “Visit Pakistan Year”

Their first schedueled IS visitors are detachments from the 5th and 10th Special Forces Groups, and some CIA guys "on holiday".
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-03-19 19:39  

#18  I can see the advertisements now, "Lose your head in PakiWakiLand," and "What you lose in PakiWakiLand stays in PakiWakiLand"
Posted by: Captain America   2006-03-19 17:45  

#17  Visit by whom?

The 3rd ID?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-03-19 16:19  

#16  It's a beautiful country. I'll visit if I can:

1) Bring in a bible
2) Order a ham and cheese sandwich in a restaurant
3) Visit a church or synagogue
4) Not risk my life doing any of the above

Till then fuggedaboutit.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-19 15:59  

#15  "And our first thousand visitors get an AK-47 and 10 clips of ammo, ABSOLUTELY FREE!"
Posted by: Raj   2006-03-19 15:58  

#14  Drum Major tours of the famous Lashkars
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-19 15:30  

#13  What's next? Olympics in Islamabad in 2424?
Posted by: Perfessor   2006-03-19 15:11  

#12  Sorry, Pakistan, but we're going to Iran this year.
Posted by: The B-2 Crew   2006-03-19 14:54  

#11  I'm a little less clear on the cultural attractions, though.

Are you kidding?

Koran recitations, beheadings, acid splashings, ah what have I forgotten? Dust storms.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-19 14:42  

#10  I suppose the only tourism they will be getting in 2007 is when the 82d drops in to visit a few friends.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-03-19 14:41  

#9  Under other circumstances, I'd love to see the high mountains in Pakistan/Afghanistan. Hindu Kush and all that.

I'm a little less clear on the cultural attractions, though.
Posted by: lotp   2006-03-19 14:36  

#8  As a kid I spent a day in Karachi in 1965. (Ship stopped there.)
The only place scaryier is Aden.
Why on earth would anybody want to be a tourist to Pakistan?
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-19 14:13  

#7  So, is the high season when the riots and seething happen, or is that in the bargain low season?

Can I be part of a riot in an adventure package?
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-03-19 14:09  

#6  Watch out Jamaica, them tourists will soon be flocking to Pakistan

Hedonism III, the new all-inclusive resort for couples only, coming to Karachi soon!!

Somehow I'm not getting the vibe for it ....
Posted by: lotp   2006-03-19 14:05  

#5  Nope. It won't work. It will be 2012 at the earliest. And that will occur ONLY if Pakistan starts on a fast-track program of outhouse building. And if they get that done by 2010, and a publicity campaign is successful, it still will not matter because the End Times tour packages will take all the potential tourists away. All the Paks have left is corruption and seething. Better hold on to what you have.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-03-19 13:46  

#4  "extending visitors maximum care and love"

Only a German tourist could possibly take this seriously, LOL. Okay, maybe a few of those Brits who love to play with their pink tanks.

In the US, well - marching around and making fools of themselves is an "art form". They don't really want to go to places which have no Michelin rating...

I think we should assign this story to Daniel Pearl Maureen Dowd. She's always moping about the lack of love in her life. Okay, Dowdy, maximum care and love coming right up.
Posted by: Griper Phulet7709   2006-03-19 13:35  

#3  Damn... you're right

Posted by: john   2006-03-19 13:32  

#2  If you substitue "terrorists" for "tourists" and "terrorism" for "tourism", etc., this makes a whole lot of sense, suddenly.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-03-19 13:26  

#1  Watch out Jamaica, them tourists will soon be flocking to Pakistan
Posted by: john   2006-03-19 13:07  

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