Kaghan Valley
Kaghan Valley


Mansehra: the kaghan improvement authority (kda) reopened the mansehra-naran-jalkhad (mnj) street to all sorts of visitors up to batakundi place on sunday, with the intention to revive and enhance the covid-hit tourism industry in kaghan valley this summer season.

Kaghan Valley Naran Bazar
Naran Bazar


“if there is no calamity and weather goes nicely we assume a tourism growth within the valley at some stage in this season, as we've cleared the mnj road to site visitors till batakundi one month beforehand of its scheduled time,” kda inspector moazzam khan instructed this correspondent. The tourism industry become close and visitors between khyber pakhtunkhwa and gilgit-baltistan suspended in october ultimate 12 months following closure of the mnj street when kaghan valley obtained a heavy snowfall. The tourism industry of now not handiest kaghan valley, however of the whole khyber pakhtunkhwa additionally had suffered adversely because of the covid-related restrictions and closure of the hospitality industry inside the province in 2020 and 2021.


“the work on reopening of the mnj street beyond batakundi is properly in progress and visitors among khyber pakhtunkhwa and gilgit-baltistan might resume as relaxation of the part of mnj roadhas been cleared up to babusar pinnacle,” mr khan stated. He stated that tourism season in kaghan valley, which normally resumed in mid-may in previous years, had taken off with the clearance of the principle artery up to naran, the commercial centre of the valley, earlier this month. Seth matiullah, the president of hoteliers association in kaghan valley, said that thousands of employees related to the tourism enterprise were laid off in the valley due to the covid-19 incidence inside the us of a.

Naran Main Bazar
Naran Bazar


“this time, we're going to keep on our enterprise activities in the entire season and anticipate the inflow of traffic on eidul fitr and eidul azha as nicely. We have now not visible such an possibility during the last one decade,” he said.