New Delhi, June 23 -- Parvez Ahmad has been ferrying tourists on his shikara (boat) across Srinagar's picturesque Dal Lake for over two decades. As is his summer routine, he waits for tourists at one of the lake's ghats.

"Hethin hasa yin (tourists have started coming) finally," Ahmad,50, smiles as he invites a group of tourists from Punjab to hop aboard his boat.

"But not as many as there were before the attack," he says on June 22, exactly two months after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in Baisaran Valley, about 100 km from Dal Lake.

The April 22 attack in Baisaran valley of Pahalgam came at a time when the Valley was witnessing a tourism boom with a footfall that many estimated was ...