The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday reacted to the Pakistan Army Chief's statement on Kashmir, saying, "How can anything foreign be in a jugular vein?"

"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," MEA official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during a weekly briefing on Thursday. Jaiswal was reacting to Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir, who called Kashmir the "jugular vein" of Islamabad and said that Pakistan"won't forget it."

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The Pakistan Army Chief made the remarks while addressing the Overseas Pakistanis Convention in Islamabad on Wednesday. The army chief also said that "we are different from Hindus" and defended the two-nation theory. These are the Pakistan Army Chief’s alienating rhetoric. He merely marketed the two-nation theory, asserting that India-Pakistan and Hindus-Pakistanis are very different.

On this, an X user, Taha Siddiqui, says, “Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir spews hate against #Hindus and propagates the #TwoNationTheory, which failed in 1971 when Bangladesh got independence from Pakistan. He asserts that children must be taught such "falsehoods" since it's easier to brainwash youth. Shameful!”

Pakistan's army chief on Wednesday had rhetorically peddled the two-nation theory and emphasised that India and Pakistan were two very different nations while noting that Hindus and Pakistanis were poles apart.

Speaking during a speech at the Overseas Pakistanis Convention in Islamabad, Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir also urged the Pakistani diaspora to pass down the story of Pakistan’s founding to future generations to preserve national identity and unity.

Munir had also addressed internal security issues, particularly in Balochistan, where he vowed to eliminate terrorist threats from groups such as the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), and Baloch Republican Army (BRA).

Labelling it the "destiny of Pakistan," he had said that "even ten generations of terrorists cannot harm Balochistan and Pakistan."

"We will beat the hell out of these terrorists very soon. You think these 1,500 terrorists, belonging to BLA, BLF, BRA, etc., can take away Balochistan from us?"

According to a report, he also expressed solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and said, "The hearts of Pakistanis beat in unison with the Muslims of Gaza."

Munir must understand clearly in biological terms that “the function of the internal jugular vein is to collect blood from the skull, brain, superficial parts of the face, and the majority of the neck. The tributaries of the internal jugular include the inferior petrosal sinus, facial, lingual, pharyngeal, superior, and middle thyroid, and, occasionally, the occipital vein. “AS SUCH KASHMIR IS AN INSEPARABLE PART OF INDIA.”