India, Nov. 5 -- Telling Pakistan to "address its own serious challenges related to development", India stringently countered its hostile neighbour at the global stage after its president, Asif Ali Zardari, alleged that Delhi is "weaponising" water at the World Summit for Social Development in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, November 5.

Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya, representing India, said, "We take strong objection to certain unjustified references made by President of Pakistan yesterday on India in its remarks."

Mandaviya termed Zardari's remarks on the Indus Water Treaty and Kashmir, among other subjects, "an abuse of an international forum to distract the world from focusing on social development by peddling disinformation against I...