Adil Najam
On your left is the picture of the flag of the Czech Republic. On your right is a ‘Check’ (or, rather, checkered flag; often used in car racing. The two should never be confused. Except for the fact that ‘Czech’ is pronounced as ‘check.’
Ordinarily, this should not be a problem. But right now the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic is visiting Islamabad, and the Capital’s PR people have adorned flags on flagpoles and a number of (very) large banners to welcome him in the spirit of good hospitality. The only problem is that instead of putting the ‘Czech’ flags on the banners, they have ‘Check’ flags!
I saw these while driving back into Islamabad on the from the Airport. I rushed back to see if I would figure out who was responsible for this little gaffe and maybe alert them to the mistake before the Czech PM arrived. Unfortunately, it turned out that the Czech PM was already here.
I wonder what he and his team thought of this. Did they even mention it to their hosts or did they just keep politely quiet? I also wonder what they thought about the banner that read: “We Pray for the Czech Progress and Prosperity”?I am sure they liked the sentiment, but maybe they also wondered why Pakistanis are praying for Czech progress and prosperity instead of working harder for Pakistani progress or prosperity. On the other hand, maybe they do not think as hard about what is written on banners as I do!
I have no way of knowing this, but my theory of how this might have happened is this – Someone tells someone to find out what a Czech (read ‘check’) flag looks like; they look up ‘check flag’ on Google, and that is the one which makes it way on the banner.
Nice story for a chuckle? But how would you feel if the Pakistan Prime Minister goes to another country and they mess up the flags this way?
[quote comment=”47901″][quote comment=”47814″][quote comment=”47802″]Do Czechs still build Skodas. We used to have those in Pakistan in late 60s. I see a lot of jokes on web about these cars.[/quote]
No, Czechs build only VW for Germans nowadays.[/quote]
What the hell… Sure Czechs build Skodas. It is one of the most sold cars in middle Europe and was car of the year in GB few times also in other countries.[/quote]
By the way here is the link to Skoda pages… http://www.skoda-auto.com/
[quote comment=”47814″][quote comment=”47802″]Do Czechs still build Skodas. We used to have those in Pakistan in late 60s. I see a lot of jokes on web about these cars.[/quote]
No, Czechs build only VW for Germans nowadays.[/quote]
What the hell… Sure Czechs build Skodas. It is one of the most sold cars in middle Europe and was car of the year in GB few times also in other countries.
Greetings,
Just for a case anyone from Czech would post comments in a style you might not be used to, I just want to note that in Czech Republic, many young people know english, many know to use the internet, but also many lack decency and then relieve their adolescent aggresivity on internet… Just for the case ;-)
And second note – this is quite popular site all over the world, how is that? So many Pakistan people live around the world? See
http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http:// pakistaniat.com
[quote comment=”46860″]It is indeed funny but one might want to think seriously for 1 sec and one can come up with many theories. Are Pakistanies cognatively impaired as a nation? Does anyone do any kind of research when a Head of the State of a country visits Pakistan? Are Pakistanies under so much of economic and political stress that they do such mistakes? Is the government machinary which is supposed to take care of protocols when a foreign deligation visits consist of ‘safarchee’ and matric fail people? Are Pakistanies living on Mars that they can’t even google the flag of a country before making a big display? Is the Government is sooo incompetent in Pakistan? I can go on and on…..[/quote]
I am Czech and never thought about this could happend. But I am not surprised because we at work deal with Pakistan companies and it is kind of the same problems.
It is realy like they live just their own lives and do not care about the world.
This story is pretty funny, but no reason to worry. Our prime minister is such an a-hole that he probably doesn’t even be deserve to represent a country that has given some wonderful things to the world. I would be even surprised if he noticed that the flag was not ours..;-)