India, June 23 -- India on Tuesday lambasted Pakistani defence minister Khwaja Asif's "we will get to war" remark over the suspended Indus Waters Treaty, saying that the comments were Islamabad's attempts to "cover its own failings and divert attention away from its human rights abuses."

New Delhi's response comes just a couple of days after Asif threatened to go to war against India if Pakistan's water security was in question. Earlier, India had said that its decision to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance would remain "unchanged".

During a weekly press briefing on Tuesday, ministry of external affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, said, "Regarding the comments made by the Pakistani Defence Minister, we have seen reports o...