India, April 30 -- Indian-origin British MP Lord Meghnad Desai has said India should 'take over Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK)' and that can only solve the longstanding Kashmir issue.

Desai commented at a time when India and Pakistan are engaged in a new tussle following the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which left 26 tourists, mostly non-Muslims, dead on April 22.

"I think the only way to solve the Kashmir problem now is for India to go and take POK over. We have the accession letter of the king. So it belongs to us," Desai, who is in New Delhi, told news agency ANI

Desai is a member of the UK Parliament's House of Lords.

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