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 the country as it conducted a nuclear test in 1998. In the video clip that has been shared by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat, Rasheed says that he was scared if the nuclear weapon leaks, it will be poor who will bear the burnt, and the rich will run away. Calling the nuclear weapon a 'patakha' (firecracker), Rasheed adds that he came back as soon as the test was done. 

Here is the video

Rasheed is known for his ludicrous speeches

While Pakistan was busy in interfering into India's internal matter after the 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 then had said that Modi sent shock but he will not stop the protest, even as the 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 either October or November. On August 23, 2019, Sheikh Rasheed was pelted with eggs and was allegedly punched for using "abusive language" against Pakistan Opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in London. 

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