Abdullah’s visit comes months after at least 26 people were killed, including tourists from Gujarat, and several others injured in a terrorist attack in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April.By: Express News Service Ahmedabad | July 30, 2025 23:13 IST 3 min readOmar Abdullah arrived in Ahmedabad on Tuesday for his two-day visit to the state (Express File)Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah arrived in Ahmedabad on Tuesday for his two-day visit to the state. On his arrival, Abdullah said that he has come to Gujarat to take part in a tourism event with a hope that a big proportion of tourists from Gujarat will start visiting J&K again.Abdullah’s visit comes months after at least 26 people were killed, including tourists from Gujarat, and several others injured in a terrorist attack in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April.Interacting with media persons, Abdullah said, “If you look at the past 30-35 years since tourism restarted in J&K, there are three most important places from where people prefer to visit Kashmir; Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal. There is a two-day event of tourism in Gandhinagar and me and my fellows have come to speak on behalf of J&K with a hope that the big proportion of visitors from Gujarat restart coming (to J&K).”In reply to a question on Operation Sindoor, Abdullah said, “There are many things regarding which the Union government will have to give answers. A few days back, Lieutenant Governor of J&K (Manoj Sinha) accepted that there was both intelligence and security failure in Pahalgam. If there is intelligence and security failure, then somebody is guilty for that. On the one hand, we have taken the action that was to be taken against terrorists. The three terrorists who are responsible for the Pahalgam incident have been eliminated. But, so far, there is no action taken for the intelligence and security failure there. People would like to hear about that.”In reply to another question on elimination of two more terrorists in J&K on Wednesday, the J&K CM said, “This will go on. But you have to ask those who told you in 2019 that after abrogation of (Article) 370, terrorism will end in J&K. Today, almost six years have passed since (Article) 370 was abrogated. Even today, terrorists are being eliminated. So, there is a difference between the time when it was said then and current reality.”After his arrival, Abdullah also paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel. During his stay in Gujarat, as per an official release from Gujarat government, Abdullah is also scheduled to visit the Statue of Unity.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:J&KOmar Abdullah