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Business Standard New Delhi
When Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz gave a veiled threat to India that his country was a nuclear-armed one, he probably hadn't bargained for a new addition to India's military might: the 'Lalu bomb'. On Monday, Aziz said, "(Prime Minister Narendra) Modi's India acts as if they are a regional superpower; we are a nuclear-armed country and we know how to defend ourselves." A day earlier, the Pakistan government cancelled a planned meeting of the national security advisors of the two countries citing New Delhi's refusal to allow an expanded agenda and a meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders. Reacting to the development, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad said that if he was made India's Prime Minister, he would counter Pakistan's nuclear bomb with India's 'Lalu bomb'!
 

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First Published: Aug 25 2015 | 9:05 PM IST

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