Islamabad: Kashmir is the heart of India-Pakistan relations and jehadis will turn towards Kashmir after the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan this year, a former Pakistani army chief has said.

"Kashmir is the core issue that needs to be settled for peace and stability in the region whereas (Narendra) Modi is not ready to compromise on Kashmir," Mirza Aslam Beg said in The Nation newspaper Sunday.

"It is Kashmir which will decide Modi’s future because the key to regional peace lies with him," Beg said.

The general reminded Modi that for three decades, Afghanistan had served as the "strategic base of resistance” for militants in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Jammu and Kashmir.

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