Kashmir Scenario Desk
Pakistan Administered Gilgit-Baltistan celebrated its maiden ‘Cap Day’ on October 1 and it is going to be a yearly exercise. Aimed at preserving a key item of its identity, the day has focus on tourist attractions, reports from Pakistan said.
The region’s government had in April this year announced to observe the event annually in light of the rising number of tourists visiting the valley.
“We have decided to introduce our culture to the people living outside G-B and to foreign visitors,” Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman said while announcing the annual day. “This is our identity and all government officials will put on the traditional cap on this day every year,” Rehman told The Express Tribune.
All the government officials across belt’s 10- districts on Saturday put on the traditional cap, according to GB Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman.
As a matter of fact, The region that suffered severely after militants killed 10 foreigner mountaineers at Nanga Parbat base camp in 2013 is trying its level best to get its tourist traffic. The tourism is linked to the livelihood of its 10,000 people, directly. Last year, it was visited by half a million tourists, slightly more than Kashmir got in 2015.