Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday reiterated his demand for the restoration of statehood, calling it “unjust” and “senseless” to link the recent Pahalgam terror attack with delays in granting statehood. He emphasized that terrorists from another country, not the people of Jammu and Kashmir or the elected government, were responsible for the attack. Abdullah stated, “Elected government or people aren’t responsible for Pahalgam attack. No one killed in the encounter of those responsible were from Jammu and Kashmir.”

Chief Minister Abdullah recalled that both Parliament and the Supreme Court had outlined a three-step process for restoring statehood: delimitation, elections, and then statehood. With the first two steps completed, he said, the final step is long overdu

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