Hazaribagh: India today (November 3) said its peace initiatives with Pakistan might continue but asserted no lasting solution to the Kashmir issue can be found it until it gets back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha told reporters that "no lasting solution to the Kashmir imbroglio can be found unless Pakistan ends its illegal occupation of PoK and hands it over to India as we consider PoK as an integral part of our country".

He ruled out dialogue with Pakistan unless Islamabad stopped cross-border terrorism and dismantled terrorist infrastructure aimed at India.

Confidence-building measures and peace initiatives, Sinha said, may continue but a substantive and productive dialogue was not possible as long as Pakistan continued to sponsor terrorism in India.

Reiterating that New Delhi's initiatives for normalisation of ties with Islamabad reflected its sincere desire for peace, the Minister regretted that Pakistan had failed to reciprocate them.

PTI