Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, while reacting to the Supreme Court hearing of a plea demanding restoration of statehood in J&K, said that terror attacks happened there even when it was a state and that it happened because India does not have “good relations” with its neighbours.

He said that statehood is not responsible for terror attacks in the region.

“Nobody can undermine anything. 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. If they are speaking of statehood and the Pahalgam attack, then they should remember that several incidents occurred during my tenure but it was a state at that time,” Farooq said while talking to media.

"We tackled it at that time...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..." he added.