Pakistan among top 10 dangerous travel spots
Pak among top 10 dangerous travel spots'
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan have been put in the list of 10 most dangerous destinations by international travel rating agencies owing to the travel advice released by different countries including the United States.
According to the rating published by Forbes, US and other international travel consultants indicated that travellers were under the threat of being kidnapped and murdered during travel in many countries. These included Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Chechnya, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
In response, Ecotourism Society Pakistan (ESP) has strongly rebutted this claim saying there was no justification to put Pakistan in the said list. According to it, Pakistan has been placed in the list due to the government’s weak and apologetic response to such advisories.
The ESP has demanded the government to take a stance over this issue and negotiate with the respective governments so that the country is dropped from the list, as travel situation in Pakistan has never been like that in Somalia or Afghanistan.
The ESP maintained that countries in this list of top 10 are those where civil wars are going on and putting Pakistan in this list is unjustified.
ESP President Agha Iqrar Haroon, in a statement, said that countries in this list of top 10 were those where civil wars were going on and putting Pakistan in this list was unjustified and contrary to facts.
In Pakistan, around 400,000 people are working in this field as porters, guides, cooks, drivers, tour agents and in several other professions. Pakistan gained a momentum in tourism last year during which around 650,000 tourists visited the country.
ESP has also demanded international bodies to look into the realities instead and remove Pakistan’s name from the list.
According to the Pakistan brief in the ratings list, which bears a US State Department’s Travel Warning, India prompted copycat testing in Pakistan in 1998, and since then, militant and extremist groups have been congregating here and targetting American and Western interests. Islamabad and the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are particularly dangerous, where members of al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban still dwell.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan have been put in the list of 10 most dangerous destinations by international travel rating agencies owing to the travel advice released by different countries including the United States.
According to the rating published by Forbes, US and other international travel consultants indicated that travellers were under the threat of being kidnapped and murdered during travel in many countries. These included Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Chechnya, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
In response, Ecotourism Society Pakistan (ESP) has strongly rebutted this claim saying there was no justification to put Pakistan in the said list. According to it, Pakistan has been placed in the list due to the government’s weak and apologetic response to such advisories.
The ESP has demanded the government to take a stance over this issue and negotiate with the respective governments so that the country is dropped from the list, as travel situation in Pakistan has never been like that in Somalia or Afghanistan.
The ESP maintained that countries in this list of top 10 are those where civil wars are going on and putting Pakistan in this list is unjustified.
ESP President Agha Iqrar Haroon, in a statement, said that countries in this list of top 10 were those where civil wars were going on and putting Pakistan in this list was unjustified and contrary to facts.
In Pakistan, around 400,000 people are working in this field as porters, guides, cooks, drivers, tour agents and in several other professions. Pakistan gained a momentum in tourism last year during which around 650,000 tourists visited the country.
ESP has also demanded international bodies to look into the realities instead and remove Pakistan’s name from the list.
According to the Pakistan brief in the ratings list, which bears a US State Department’s Travel Warning, India prompted copycat testing in Pakistan in 1998, and since then, militant and extremist groups have been congregating here and targetting American and Western interests. Islamabad and the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are particularly dangerous, where members of al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban still dwell.
posted by India News Watch at 2:09 PM
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