Pakistan cites tourism to rebuild quake-hit Kashmir

PAKISTAN’S October 8 earthquake shattered more than homes, schools and countless lives - it also smashed security restrictions that effectively banned foreigners from visiting Pakistani Kashmir.

Thousands of foreign aid workers and troops have poured in to the Pakistani Himalayas to help survivors of the earthquake that killed 73,000 people.

Now government officials are looking at tourism as a way to put the scenic region back on its feet.