Patil reminds Omar of a bad film: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

The of a smiling President Pratibha Patil with an AK-47 during her visit to forward posts in north Kashmir has become more than a photo-op here. So much so that National Conference president and MP Omar Abdullah took aim at it in his blog on the party's official website.

"Yesterday my newspaper had a photograph prominent on the first page of this country's First Citizen the President. The photograph was of President Patil brand ishingan AK-47 and smiling. Somehow the two things didn't seem to go together," the blog says. "I know she's the Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces but the photograph reminded me of a rather forgettable Sylvester Stallone movie Stop! Or My Mom Wil Shoot".

The media had not been invited to cover Patil's visit to the forward posts and this picture was taken by a photographer in the President's encourage who then distributed it to the media.

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