India, April 17 -- India on Thursday rubbished Pakistan Army chief Gen Asim Munir's remarks describing Kashmir as the "jugular vein" of Pakistan and said Islamabad's only link with Jammu and Kashmir is the vacation of illegally occupied parts of the union territory.

The Indian side also dismissed the Pakistan foreign office's contention that Mumbai terror attacks conspirator Tahawwur Rana is a Canadian citizen who hadn't renewed his Pakistani origin documents for the past two decades, saying Islamabad cannot obscure the country's failure to act against terrorists.

Addressing an event in Islamabad on Wednesday, Munir said Pakistan will not forget the issue of Kashmir and will stand by the Kashmiri people in the "struggle against the Indi...