Srinagar, May 20 -- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday asserted that war was not even a "last option" given that India was a nuclear power. She said the central government should have sent the multi-party delegation earlier, after the Pahalgam attack, to apprise other countries about the country's ordeal.

"What the government of India is doing today - sending delegations to different countries- it should have been done earlier to raise awareness in other countries about what has happened and what could be done. War is not an option, not even a last option, when you are a nuclear power," Mufti, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told ANI.

Mufti said that this war was not between civilians, but between...