NEW DELHI (PTI): India last week dismissed as abusive a Pakistan foreign office statement calling India the sick man of Asia. The Pakistani statement was abusive and personal and we have no inclination to dignify # with any formal comment an external affairs ministry spokesman said

The war of words between India and Pakistan seems to be intensifying with such passing day.

Reacting angrily to the Indian minister of state for external affairs Salman Khursheed’s description of the Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.as about   balloon running out of gas the Pakistan foreign office said Khurseed was a rented Muslim serving his Hindu masters. Khurseed in an interview to a leading video news magazine Eyewitness aired on Indian television last week said Bhutto was clutched in a variety of problems personal political and above all about the concept of Pakistan as a nation.

Article extracted from this publication >> February 18, 1994