Pakistan is a 'fake' country: Markandey Katju

Terming India as an extremely backward country, he said 90 per cent of Indians are fools. They are full of casteism, full of communalism and full of superstitions.

"80 per cent of Hindus are communal and 80 per cent of the Muslims are communal, this is truth and this is reality," he said.

Other panelists included Resident Editor of The Hindu Praveen Swami, Senior Anchor of CNN-IBN Suhasini Haider, Senior Journalist of NDTV Nidhi Razdan and Maj Gen (retd) G D Bakshi.

Razdan said, "Our responsibility as a journalist is to ask both sides tough questions and not take for granted what our state was saying. Pakistani journalists are questioning their state more than Indian journalists, especially on the issue of national security," she said.