India has dismissed the allegation of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that it is 'playing a dangerous game' in Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan as 'absolute rubbish'.

"It is the pot calling the kettle black and if anybody is doing such a thing, it is Pakistan," External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said while participating in a BBC Hindi special programme, Aapki Baat BBC Ke Saath, broadcast on Sunday night.

"India's reaction is that this is absolutely rubbish, because India is not playing a dangerous game anywhere," Sinha said.

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 Taliban reign. After the fall of the Taliban 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.