Tourism volumes actually have returned to and even exceeded levels that happened in the 1960s and 1970s, but the demographic background of tourists there has changed (call it democratization ) and it's still not nearly as safe as it was for the better part of the 1960s-1980s.

The train and/or the tracks are a definite target in a way "Kashmiri" infrastructure would not have been in the 1960s-1988.

The armed government personnel presence on the streets still far exceeds anything that J&K had seen prior to 1989.