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?
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This is like the prayer you get from a faqir when he is expecting something. We are pretty expert in this from the street to the international levels.[/quote]
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Hilarious Nasir :)
This post is the most hilarious I’ve seen on ATP yet! Just too funny. But its impossible to believe someone thought this could be a country’s flag!
well, i dont know whether to laught at it or feel ashamed about it!
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…..
Dear mypakistan.com a.k.a Mera Pakistan
I can understand that you have tremendous love for urdu language that you have published a website in it (lots-n-lots of hard work!) but I think when you call homepage/home = “Ghar” it sounds weird. Just look at the header of this site, you will see that its main-page/home is called Frontpage which is web 2.0
You could call it “saray-e-work” or “awwal-safa” or just simply “frontage” is my suggestion
i hope it adds one more star to your site
@ This is like the prayer you get from a faqir when he is expecting something. We are pretty expert in this from the street to the international levels.
u r right