*ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Monday issued a statement, expressing‘disappointment’ over statement made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modiover nuclear arsenals, ARY News reported.*

Modi on Sunday claimed that New Delhi had stopped its policy of beingfrightened by Islamabad’s threats and said its nuclear capabilities are notbeing kept for Diwali. He made this addressing a rally as part of hiselection campaign in Rajasthan.

Responding to a question regarding Prime Minister Modi’s recent remarks onIndian nuclear capability, the Foreign Office spokesperson stated thatPakistan considered those remarks as ‘highly unfortunate and irresponsible’.

He said such rhetoric for short-term political and electoral gains, withcomplete disregard to its effects on strategic stability in South Asia, wasregrettable and against norms of responsible nuclear behaviour.

“We would also like to draw attention to the remarks of the Indian PrimeMinister, sensationally referring to the night of 27 February 2019 and themissile related threat from India as ‘the night of murder’. It clearlycontradicts the position of Indian officials, who had tried to give animpression that there were no such plans of India and instead had blamedPakistan for ‘whipping up war hysteria’,” the spokesperson added.