In yet another major embarrassment to Pakistan, Radio Pakistan, the country’s national broadcaster, embarrassed itself and the country by committing a major faux-pas while responding to India’s move to report weather for Gilgit-Baltistan.
“In Ladakh, maximum temperature is -4 degree centigrade and minimum temperature is -1 degree centigrade.”, tweeted the Pakistani handle.
However, -4 degree centigrade was lower than -1 degree centigrade, and therefore cannot be the maximum temperature. Netizens observed the mistake and quickly pointed it out. Soon, it led to Pakistan becoming the butt of jokes and memes.
#Pakistan 😀 Tumse na ho payega pic.twitter.com/gwudJGg1Vo
— Smita Prakash (@smitaprakash) May 10, 2020
😂”Ye tweet padh ke Pakistan ki maximum aukat aur minimum IQ pata chal gayi..(After reading the tweet, 1 gets 2 know Pakistan's maximum status & minimum IQ)," Twitter schools🇵🇰 on Ladakh weather gaffe. @majorgauravarya @republic https://t.co/5E9COUArP0
— Dhruv Desai (@ScorpioDD82) May 10, 2020
Pakistan’s move comes in the wake of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) referring to its meteorological sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir as “Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad.” The Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had rejected India’s move and issued a statement regarding the same.
IMD’s move to include Gilgit Baltistan and Muzaffarabad comes days after the Supreme Court of Pakistan allowed Islamabad to amend a 2018 administrative order to conduct General Elections in the region.
India lodged a strong protest over the court ruling and said that such actions by Pakistan can neither hide the illegal occupation of parts of Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by Pakistan nor the gross human rights violations, exploitation and denial of freedom to the people residing in Pakistan occupied territories for the past seven decades. It strongly condemned Pakistan over its efforts to bring “material change” to territories under its “illegal and forcible” occupation.
Looks like, apart from lessons on democracy, human rights, Pakistan needs lessons on integers too!