Modi, Mufti used threat of nuclear annihilation as some sort of PUBG game: Omar

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Press Trust of India Srinagar
Last Updated : Apr 22 2019 | 9:05 PM IST

NC leader Omar Abdullah Monday said the threat of nuclear annihilation was not like a PUBG game where one can hit the reset button to restore normal life, as he criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti for their remarks.

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was reacting to Modi's speech at an election rally Sunday in which he had said that India's nuclear bombs were not kept for Diwali.

Responding to Modi's statement, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti earlier Monday said Pakistan's nuclear arsenal were not for EId.

Abdullah criticised both these remarks.

"Whether Diwali or Eid, both PM Modi & Ms Mufti have used the threat of nuclear annihilation as some sort of PUBG type game where they can just hit the reset button & life will carry on. Both of them would be well served to remember #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki when issuing such threats," Abdullah said in a tweet.

Modi Sunday said, "India has stopped getting scared of Pakistan's threats. I did right, didn't I? Else every other day, they used to say 'we have nuclear button', our newspapers would also say the same, then what do we have? Have we kept it (nuclear button) for Diwali?"
Reacting to it, Mehbooba said in a tweet, "If India hasn't kept nuclear bomb for Diwali, it's obvious Pakistan's not kept theirs for Eid either. Don't know why PM Modi must stoop so low & reduce political discourse to this,"

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First Published: Apr 22 2019 | 9:05 PM IST

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