Srinagar, Feb. 10 -- During the meeting, which lasted for 30 minutes, officials said the chief minister raised with Shah the issue of restoration of statehood to J&K.

On August 5, 2019, the Centre abrogated Article 370 which granted special status to J&K and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two UTs - J&K and Ladakh.

During the meeting, Omar also briefed Shah about the situation in J&K after the two recent incidents - the death of a person by suicide in Kathua in Jammu, and shooting of a truck driver after he did not stop at a checkpoint in Sopore in north Kashmir.

After these incidents that took place on February 4 and 5, the chief minister had said that incidents like these "risk alienating the very people who we need to carry with...