New Delhi, May 31 -- Former Union Minister MJ Akbar, who is part of global outreach programme delegation travelling across the world to convey India's firm stance against terrorism, criticised Pakistan, calling it a nation with a "double face" and a "forked tongue".

Addressing the Indian diaspora in Copenhagen in Denmark, MJ Akbar said, "Even well-meaning friends will ask you, why don't you talk to Pakistan? Tell them Pakistan has a government with a double face, which face do we talk to? Pakistan has a government with a forked tongue; whose tongue do we address? Pakistan has talks with a poisoned tongue that gets hurt when a tongue is poisoned."

"The talks are nothing but a bluff. We now have a leader who has actually called the bluff,...