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US Embassy account retweets a tweet critical of PM Imran Khan’s govt; later apologises
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Probably the signs of things to come under Biden administration.
US establishment will now go after IK and Erdogan.
We will miss Trump.
US establishment will now go after IK and Erdogan.
We will miss Trump.
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Meh not surprised, Pompeo probably upset with Imran Khan congratulating Biden. Even if Trump goes, we all are aware of how SAFMA and various non-profits try to influence Pakistani politics. People like Nawaz Sharif have collude with foreign powers to overthrow Imran Khan.
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This is the dumbest thing I've read. The US embassy is not under Biden's control right now, Trump is still President - I don't think you realize that Biden won't be President until January 20th and right now Trump hasn't conceded, he has full control over the State dept and by extention all embassies, this isn't a Biden supported message. Also you shouldn't "miss" trump, he literally hates you and has openly disparaged Islam.
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Upset with congratulating Biden? But every world leader has done that.
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Somebody in this particular embassy probably wasn't happy or maybe they never like Khan, afterall he isn't a globalist and puts Pakistan first.
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Probably wants to handover some unnecessary headaches to next POTUS. Will be interesting to see approach of US Embassies in Gulf as well for next 2 months.
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#ApologiseUSembassy started trending in pakistan, results followed
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dear Followers: The U.S. Embassy Islamabad Twitter account was accessed last night without authorization. The U.S. Embassy does not endorse the posting or retweeting of political messages. We apologize for any confusion that may have resulted from the unauthorized post.</p>— U.S. Embassy Islamabad (@usembislamabad) <a href="https://twitter.com/usembislamabad/status/1326446279287824385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dear Followers: The U.S. Embassy Islamabad Twitter account was accessed last night without authorization. The U.S. Embassy does not endorse the posting or retweeting of political messages. We apologize for any confusion that may have resulted from the unauthorized post.</p>— U.S. Embassy Islamabad (@usembislamabad) <a href="https://twitter.com/usembislamabad/status/1326446279287824385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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They probs forgot to revoke access from someone in the Trump admin.
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The Trump administration is still in power until January 20th, 2021.
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Ahsan Iqbal has to the most annoying Noon League politician and God I hate his smug face.
Here he is calling Imran Khan, a guy in power for 2 years as a dictator. While being in a party where power is handed down father to daughter, where his leader has used the army to overthrow governments and openly tried to become Amir ul Muhmeneen as a dictator....you couldn't make this up.
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This guy is dumb as a rock
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Also shamelessly takes credit for any achievement of the PTI government. Was even saying the current account surplus in the first quarter isn't a big deal because it has been done by curbing machinery imports that were happening in the PML-N government. You cannot make this up.
The reality is when PML-N left in 2018 our exports were even less than 2013.
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The United States embassy in Islamabad on Wednesday apologised for retweeting an "unauthorised" post about the premier by PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal after it sparked outrage on social media.
"The US embassy Islamabad Twitter account was accessed last night without authorisation. The US embassy does not endorse the posting or retweeting of political messages. We apologise for any confusion that may have resulted from the unauthorised post," the embassy said on its Twitter account.
The whole saga started after Iqbal on Tuesday posted a screenshot on the social networking site of an article by The Washington Post titled "Trump's defeat is a blow for the world's demagogues and dictators".
"We have one in Pakistan too. He will be shown the way out soon," Iqbal said in his tweet, in what was an apparent reference to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The sharing of Iqbal's tweet by the US embassy's Twitter account quickly sparked outrage, as government officials, including a federal minister and the Sindh governor, called upon the embassy to respect diplomatic norms and issue an apology.
The hashtag #ApologiseUSembassy also started trending on Twitter on Wednesday.
"US embassy still working in Trumpian mode in support of convicted absconder and intervening brazenly in our internal politics," Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said before the embassy issued an apology.
"Monroe doctrine also died centuries ago! US embassy must observe norms of diplomacy," she said.
The minister also expressed her dissatisfaction with the apology issued by the US embassy.
"Account was clearly not hacked so someone who had access to it used it 'without authorisation'. Unacceptable that someone working in the US embassy is pushing a particular political party's agenda," she said.
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail urged the Foreign Office to take action against the embassy.
"This is utterly absurd, how can the US embassy retweet something containing derogatory remarks against our premier? This is against diplomatic protocols. An apology is needed with immediate clarification if fake or hacked," he said.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communi*cation Shahbaz Gill said it was the first time ever an embassy was seen "insulting" its own lawfully elected president. "We expect some heads must roll. This is unacceptable!" he said.
Azhar Mashwani, Punjab chief minister's focal person for digital media, questioned whether this was how US embassies under State Secretary Mike Pompeo would behave for the next two-and-a-half months.
Head of PTI's Digital Media Wing, Imran Ghazali, had also demanded an apology for the "embarrassing and disrespectful tweet" from the US embassy's account.
Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Digital Media Dr Arsalan Khalid said strategic accounts are "very sensitive digital assets" and any mistake "should be rectified publicly".
https://www.dawn.com/news/1589820/u...r-sharing-unauthorised-tweet-against-pm-imran
"The US embassy Islamabad Twitter account was accessed last night without authorisation. The US embassy does not endorse the posting or retweeting of political messages. We apologise for any confusion that may have resulted from the unauthorised post," the embassy said on its Twitter account.
The whole saga started after Iqbal on Tuesday posted a screenshot on the social networking site of an article by The Washington Post titled "Trump's defeat is a blow for the world's demagogues and dictators".
"We have one in Pakistan too. He will be shown the way out soon," Iqbal said in his tweet, in what was an apparent reference to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The sharing of Iqbal's tweet by the US embassy's Twitter account quickly sparked outrage, as government officials, including a federal minister and the Sindh governor, called upon the embassy to respect diplomatic norms and issue an apology.
The hashtag #ApologiseUSembassy also started trending on Twitter on Wednesday.
"US embassy still working in Trumpian mode in support of convicted absconder and intervening brazenly in our internal politics," Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said before the embassy issued an apology.
"Monroe doctrine also died centuries ago! US embassy must observe norms of diplomacy," she said.
The minister also expressed her dissatisfaction with the apology issued by the US embassy.
"Account was clearly not hacked so someone who had access to it used it 'without authorisation'. Unacceptable that someone working in the US embassy is pushing a particular political party's agenda," she said.
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail urged the Foreign Office to take action against the embassy.
"This is utterly absurd, how can the US embassy retweet something containing derogatory remarks against our premier? This is against diplomatic protocols. An apology is needed with immediate clarification if fake or hacked," he said.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communi*cation Shahbaz Gill said it was the first time ever an embassy was seen "insulting" its own lawfully elected president. "We expect some heads must roll. This is unacceptable!" he said.
Azhar Mashwani, Punjab chief minister's focal person for digital media, questioned whether this was how US embassies under State Secretary Mike Pompeo would behave for the next two-and-a-half months.
Head of PTI's Digital Media Wing, Imran Ghazali, had also demanded an apology for the "embarrassing and disrespectful tweet" from the US embassy's account.
Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Digital Media Dr Arsalan Khalid said strategic accounts are "very sensitive digital assets" and any mistake "should be rectified publicly".
https://www.dawn.com/news/1589820/u...r-sharing-unauthorised-tweet-against-pm-imran
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