'Saving Pakistani Taxpayer Money by Wearing....': Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif Trolled Over Pants in Meeting With Putin | Video

New Delhi: “When you’re in Beijing talking geopolitics but your pants are busy negotiating with your socks.” That’s how one netizen summed up Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s awkward moment in Beijing when he met Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead of his diplomatic words making waves, it was his pants, or the lack thereof that stole the spotlight online. 

The Pakistani premier, on a bilateral visit to China, sat down with Putin a day after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. But social media users were far more focused on Sharif’s cropped trousers that exposed his shins during the high-profile meeting. The trolling was merciless.

Netizens Tear Into Shehbaz’s “Short Pants Diplomacy”

One user wrote: “Shehbaz Sharif was talking bullshit and Putin was trying to control his laughter after looking at Sharif’s pants.”

Another quipped: “Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif needs a new tailor ASAP. When you’re in Beijing talking geopolitics but your pants are busy negotiating with your socks.”

A sarcastic take read: “Saving Pakistani taxpayer money by wearing short pants. Shehbaz Sharif is best Pakistani PM ever.”

Mocking Pakistan’s economic crisis, a comment said: “Shehbaz Sharif met Putin on the sidelines of SCO with short pants or short shocks making his bare shins open to the world audience. Truly, Pakistan's finances are in a miserable state impacting even the PM’s clothing.”

Others took the joke further: “Sponsoring a good pants for Shehbaz Sharif. Anyone else wants to join or crowdfund for next door beggar? Man, it was so humiliating! He was just sitting like that in front of Mr. Putin.”

One more jab went: “At least next time his skin won’t show up like that.”

And then the punchiest one: “Beggar Shehbaz Sharif had an informal conversation with Vladimir #Putin not #Vladimir Putin. #Vladimir Putin can make people piss on their pants just with a mere eye contact.” 

One use wrote, His darzee is use to stitching more payjamas than suits

Sharif: Fine With India-Russia Ties

While the internet roasted his fashion sense, Shehbaz Sharif attempted to strike a diplomatic balance. Sitting across Putin, he said Pakistan respected Russia’s close relationship with India and had no issues with it.

“I would like to thank you for supporting Pakistan and trying to have a balancing act in the region. I know, and I must say that we respect your relationship with India ... and it’s perfectly fine,” Sharif said.

At the same time, he underlined Islamabad’s eagerness to deepen ties with Moscow: “We also want to build very strong relations … and these relations will be supplementary and complementary for the progress and prosperity of the region.”

He even went on to call Putin “a dynamic leader” and stressed Pakistan’s willingness to work closely with Russia.

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