India, March 18 -- India on Tuesday rejected Pakistan's reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks on the reasons for poor relations between the two countries and urged Islamabad to vacate Indian territory under its "illegal" occupation.

During a podcast on Sunday, Modi said Pakistan has been at odds with India since Partition in 1947 and waged a "proxy war against us". He also said Pakistan had stymied his peace overtures.

Pakistan's foreign ministry responded to these remarks on Monday by describing them as "misleading and one-sided". The ministry said in a statement that the comments "omit the Jammu and Kashmir dispute", which remained unresolved for seven decades despite India's "assurances to the United Nations, Pakistan an...