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Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday said the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict on abrogation of Article 370 was \u201dsad but not unexpected\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n The top court unanimously upheld the Centre\u2019s decision to abrogate Article 370 and directed restoration of statehood in Jammu and Kashmir \u201dat the earliest\u201d and set a September 30, 2024 deadline for holding assembly elections there. \u201dIt\u2019s sad but the verdict was not unexpected particularly in the present circumstances,\u201d the Mirwaiz told PTI.<\/em><\/p>\n He said people who facilitated accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India in 1947 must be feeling deeply betrayed.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201dThose people who at the time of the Partition facilitated the accession of J&K and reposed their faith in the promises and assurances given to them by the Indian leadership must feel deeply betrayed.<\/em><\/p>\n For the rest, the State as it existed in August 1947 remains divided on the ceasefire line, and hence continues to be a bleeding humanitarian and political issue, begging redressal,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n The Hurriyat chief was released from house arrest in September, four years after he was taken into detention in the wake of abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution in August 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday said the Supreme Court\u2019s verdict on abrogation of Article 370 was \u201dsad but not unexpected\u201d. The top court unanimously upheld the Centre\u2019s decision to abrogate Article 370 and directed restoration of statehood in Jammu and Kashmir \u201dat the earliest\u201d and set a September 30, 2024 deadline for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"