New Delhi: Dismissing as "absolutely rubbish" Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's allegation that it is playing a dangerous game in Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan, India has said "it is the pot calling the kettle black" and "if anybody is doing such a thing", it is Pakistan.

"By levelling such an allegation on India, Pakistan is only trying to prove the saying - pot calling the kettle black," India's External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said while participating in a BBC Hindi Special Programme, Aapki Baat BBC Ke Saath, broadcast on September 21 night.

"India's reaction is that this is absolutely rubbish, because India is not playing a dangerous game anywhere. If anybody is doing such a thing, it is Pakistan," said Sinha without mincing words when asked to comment on the charges by Musharraf in an interview to a Canadian newspaper.

To Musharraf's observation that Indian Consulates in Jalalabad and Kandahar in Afghanistan are being used to foment trouble in Pakistan, Sinha pointed out that those Consulates were there since a long time and had been closed down during the Taleban reign. After the fall of the Taleban, these Consulates were reopened.

"We are doing a lot for the government and people of Afghanistan, and in these efforts, the two Consulates have a major role," said Sinha, who is currently in New York to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly.

PTI