Pakistan Minister calls nuclear weapon as 'patakha', says 'flew away before 1998 test'

In a video clip that surfaced on social media on Saturday, Pakistan's Railway Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad said that he flew out of country as it conducted a nuclear test in 1998. In video clip that has been shared by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat, Rasheed says that he was scared if nuclear weapon leaks, it will be poor who will bear burnt, and rich will run away. Calling nuclear weapon a 'patakha' (firecracker), Rasheed adds that he came back as soon as test was done. 

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Rasheed is kwn for his ludicrous speeches

While Pakistan was busy in interfering into India's internal matter after country abrogated Article 370, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad made a sensational statement claiming that India wants him dead. Moreover, a video of him went viral last year wherein he literally got an electric shock as soon as he began criticising PM Modi. In utter embarrassment, he n had said that Modi sent shock but he will t stop protest, even as crowd breaks into uncontrollable laughter.

 Earlier on August 28, 2019, Sheikh Rasheed had predicted that India and Pakistan would go on a full-blown war in eir October or vember. On August 23, 2019, Sheikh Rasheed was pelted with eggs and was allegedly punched for using "abusive langu" against Pakistan Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in London. 

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