New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on February 27 that the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir is far from normal more than five years after Article 370 was abrogated.

Abdullah said the normalcy in the Union Territory, as claimed by the BJP government at the Centre, is not organic, but forced, citing instances in support of his argument.

"If what is happening in Jammu and Kashmir is organic, nothing like it. If it is driven out of fear, then you have a problem," Abdullah said during the Red Mike Dialogues in New Delhi on February 27. He was responding to a question on the recent reduction in shutdowns and separatist and militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Because you can only control a ...