CM Omar Abdullah on how Pahalgam, Red Fort terror attacks impacted J&K | HTLS 2025

Speaking at HT Summit, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stated that the year so far has certainly been a difficult one. “Answer by any yardstick if you want to assess the year, it has been a difficult one,” said Abdullah in conversation with Sunetra Choudhary, the national political editor at Hindustan Times. “By any yardstick, if you want to assess the year, it has been a difficult one... from the security paradigm…the attack in Baisaran earlier in the year and ended the year with a blast in Delhi which emanated from a conspiracy hatched in Jammu and Kashmir, coupled with very difficult economic environment,” said Abdullah. “The immediate change after Baisaran has completely reoriented our economy. We have never been a very strong economy in the first place and these circumstances made it even more difficult,” the Chief Minister said.