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?
Kaleem Sahib
lets not exaggerate, It happens every where, pendoos are in every administration, look at Bush’s admin, He himself a qualified one. For this you don’t have to necessarily consult Quran, you can identify them nearby you, but its not the end
of the world. Btw, indeed Quran instructs everyone to get education and research as jehalat is a sin, “Agahi” (awareness) is a blessing, you see !!!!?
What worried me is the banner ” we pray for the Czech Prime
Minister………” as if he was suffering from heart attack and
can we pray for a communist (or ex) ???
I do believe that every admin must examine their officials if they really have brains inside their skulls.
I am impressed by the Czeh sense of humor and how well they have taken this blunder from us. We, I think, would have turned it into a ghairat ka masla and would be burning flags on the streets… check flags!
Or, as you see on other posts, we would be quote hadees and quran out of context to see what the answer was.
This is another example of the fact that the big political feudal lords in Pakistan only know how to manipulate the poor.You can not expect sanity from them.But does it mean that they don’t know anything?NO! THEY KNOW HOW TO MAKE MONEY!
this was the first post … sent to me by a friend that introduced me to ATP.
I cant believe its still viewed and commented upon !!
ps; this was classic btw.
Actually I found it really cool and funny. It could be as a response to those europeans mainly eastern ones who do not differ between Pakistanis and Arabs, between Iranians and Arabs etc. So, Mr. Topolanek with his mistress can be hapy and thankfull that the nice and kind people of Pakistan accept him as a guest!