Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah today said that terror incidents cannot be attributed solely to the Union Territory’s loss of statehood, asserting that such attacks had also occurred when the region had full state status.
He said that such attacks will happen as they do not have good relations with neighbours and the terrorists come from there.
He was responding to the Supreme Court’s reference to the Pahalgam terror attack, while hearing the petition of granting of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
The veteran politician said that nobody can undermine anything like the Pahalgam incident.
” These (terror attacks) happened even when it was a State. It is not as if just Statehood is responsible for this. This will happen because we do not have good relations with our neighbours. They (terrorists) come from there,” Abdullah told reporters.
“If they are speaking of statehood and the Pahalgam incident, then they should remember that several incidents occurred in my tenure but it was a State at that time. We tackled it at that time,” he said.
The NC president said that people are hopeful that the Supreme Court will take note of this and restore our rights, something which has been promised by the Government inside as well as outside the Parliament.
