Abdullah said he would hold talks with the Centre, including the Home Minister, to resolve the issue as the blanket ban on the use of pre-paid SIM cards is not the answer to issues relating to the security and other important matters.

"Jammu and Kashmir has to be kept at par with other states in respect of use of SIM cards," he told reporters and asserted that the service groups should be made responsible for ensuring verification of documents as per the requirements for pre-paid SIM card facilities.

"We cannot put to inconvenience large number of genuine users for the fault of service groups", he added.

The ban was imposed in the state from November one in the wake of reports that proper verification is not being done while providing such connections by the service providers/vendors raising security concerns.