Updated September 24th, 2019 at 14:06 IST
Pak's UN envoy schooled: 'Calling UK PM Foreign Minister isn't a typo'
In a major goof-up, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Monday called British PM Boris Johnson "foreign minister" on Twitter.
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In a major goof-up, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Monday called British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "foreign minister" on Twitter. "Prime Minister Imran Khan met British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson this morning," Lodhi tweeted as she put out a picture of the meeting. Netizens caught her blunder, took screenshot of it and trolled for her glaring error. Netizens trolled her after she deleted her tweet and called it a 'typo'.
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Netizens take screenshot of Maleeha Lodhi's embarrassing goof-up
Politicians in Pakistan will come & go but Maleeha Lodhi will always be at the UN embarrassing Pakistan with the blessings from Aliens. pic.twitter.com/5mhapOPxQm
— Ayesha Khan (@KhanAyesha23)
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Maleeha Lodhi deletes tweet, calls it 'typo'
Lodhi deleted the tweet after around an hour and put out another picture, saying "Sorry typo in the previous tweet. Prime Minister Imran Khan Met British PM this morning". Incidentally, Johnson was the foreign secretary in the government of Theresa May from 2016 to 2018. However, netizens pointed out that mistaking someone's official governmental position is not a typo. Here is how they reacted.
Sorry typo in previous tweet. Prime Minister Imran Khan Met British PM this morning. pic.twitter.com/Ufp9vz5Ent
— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha)
Sorry, I meant Rahul (Gandhi). Some typo is previous tweet.
— Naila Inayat नायला इनायत (@nailainayat)
Why couldn't she employ the same personal diplomacy and chutzpah for furthering Pakistan's interest that she so ably employed to keep herself plonked in this cushy job regardless of who or which political party was in power back in Islamabad. She needs to let go
— Asif (@walstreetblues)
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Not her first goof-up
It is not the first time that Lodhi has caused embarrassment to Pakistan. In 2017, Lodhi held up a photograph of a scarred girl at the United Nations and said she was offering proof of "brutality" in Kashmir. But the photo turned out to be that of a 17-year-old Palestinian girl, taken in Gaza in 2014 by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine. The teenager had been injured by shrapnel in an Israeli attack. With PTI inputs.
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Published September 24th, 2019 at 13:41 IST