Geeta Mohan | Edited by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar
New Delhi, October 16, 2017 | UPDATED 17:21 IST
The Abbasi government's official Twitter handle posted a video featuring an Afghan mosque to promote Pakistan's "mind-blowing sceneries, civilization, heritage, culture."
Maleeha Lodhi and Pakistan have done it again.
Weeks after the UN envoy tried to pass off a photograph of a Palestinian as a victim of pellet gun fire in Kashmir, Islamabad has tweeted a video featuring an Afghan mosque to promote Pakistan's "mind-blowing sceneries, civilization, heritage, culture."
And Maleeha Lodhi, a former journalist, retweeted it.
The video does showcase Pakistani heritage sites, but it also shows a picture of the shrine of Hazrat Ali (the Blue Mosque), located in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. It meant to show the Sufi shrine of Bhit Shah and Sehwan.
Pakistan has beautiful landscape and people. But its government keeps messing up. Like @LodhiMaleeha RT of this video 1/2 https://t.co/BZv3eQ9DJz
- BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) October 15, 2017
Between 0:21 and 0:24 the Shrine of Ali in Mazar #AFG is claimed as a Sufi shrine in Pakistan. @LodhiMaleeha 2/2 pic.twitter.com/z3zalO4Q5F
- BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) October 15, 2017
Both the Pakistani government and Maleeha Lodhi have deleted their tweets.
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