NEW DELHI, March 7: Expressing the hope that decade-old India-Pakistan acrimony would become a 'thing of the past', Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani on Sunday said efforts to improve bilateral relations would continue.

"We hope the animosity will become a thing of the past," he stated citing improvement in bilateral ties since the joint statement issued after a meeting between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad in January.

Talking to newsmen at his residence on the occasion of Holi, he referred to violence in occupied Kashmir and said: "So we cannot give up caution." He said efforts to improve relations between the two countries would continue. -APP