India, April 17 -- India has rubbished comments by the Pakistani army chief Asim Munir who claimed Kashmir was Islamabad's "jugular vein". In a strongly worded statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) told reporters that Pakistan's "only relationship with Kashmir" is to vacate the illegally occupied territory.

"How can anything foreign be in a jugular vein? This is a Union Territory of India. Its only relationship with Pakistan is the vacation of illegally occupied territories by that country," Jaiswal said.

His remarks come hours after a video of Munir urging Pakistani citizens to narrate how the nation was born to their children went viral.

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