India Sunday rejected as "irresponsible" and "preposterous" Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's claim that India was planning to carry out another attack on Pakistan.

In a strongly worded statement, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the comments by the Pakistani Foreign Minister were aimed at whipping up war hysteria in the region.This public gimmick appears to be a call to Pakistan-based terrorists to undertake a terror attack in India," Mr. Kumar said.

The MEA spokesperson's statement came hours after Mr. Qureshi said at a press conference in Multan that Pakistan had "reliable intelligence" that India was planning to attack Pakistan again between April 16 and 20.
Responding to Qureshi's claims, The government said it has been made clear to pakistan that it cannot absolve itself of responsibility of a cros- border terrorist attack in India.

"No attempt at creating an alibi for its complicity in such attacks will succeed. Pakistan needs to take credible and irreversible steps against terrorism operating from all territories under its control rather than making hysterical statements to obfuscate the core issue that bedevils our region: cross-border terrorism," he said.