Srinagar, Dec 13 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the Centre cannot claim normalcy in the Union territory until the destinations, closed after the Pahalgam attack earlier this year, are reopened.

He also called for a review of the decision to close several tourist spots after the attack.

Speaking to the reporters after throwing open Asia’s longest ski drag lift at Gulmarg, Abdullah said the elected government can only build or improve the tourism-related infrastructure in J-K, and the decision to close tourist destinations “is not ours”.

“Unfortunately, when they are closed, there is no consultation with us. If I were sitting there, I would have opened everything by now,” he said.

After the April 22 terror attack in Baisaran meadows in Pahalgam, which l

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