Srinagar, Oct. 19 -- Asserting that no local youth has joined any terrorist outfit during the last nine months in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday promised restoration of statehood to the region at "an appropriate time."

Addressing a media conclave in Patna, Shah, according to the news agency KNO said, "After the abrogation of Article 370, terror-infested Jammu and Kashmir has taken a U-turn, local recruitment in terror outfits has fallen to zero as no local youth has been recruited in the past nine months."

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