Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- 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 ...