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“International law doesn’t recognise India’s unilateral and illegal actions” of 2019, caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani posted on X.

Islamabad would write to the UN, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the European Union to apprise them of the Indian court decision and its “illegality”, Jilani added.

Political parties in Kashmir that opposed the revocation, and were among those that went to court, said they were disappointed by the verdict.

“Disappointed but not disheartened,” Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister and vice president of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party, posted on X. “The struggle will continue. It took the BJP decades to reach here. We are also prepared for the long haul.”

Mehbooba Mufti, another former chief minister and president of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party, echoed those views.

“The people of J&K are not going to lose hope or give up. Our fight for honour and dignity will continue regardless. This isn’t the end of the road for us,” she posted on X.

The Indian Supreme Court said special status was a temporary constitutional provision that could be revoked. It ordered that Jammu and Kashmir should return to being a state at the earliest opportunity.

“Article 370 was an interim arrangement due to war conditions in the state,” Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said, referring to the provision of the Indian constitution which provided the special status after the first India-Pakistan war over the Himalayan region.

“Textual reading also indicates that it is a temporary provision,” Chandrachud said.

Security was stepped up before the verdict in Jammu and Kashmir region roiled by militant violence and protests since the start of an anti-India insurgency in 1989. Tens of thousands of people have been killed although violence has tapered off in recent years.