Naeem ul Haque, special assistant to the Pakistani prime minister, has found himself at the epicentre of a genuine troll-fest on social media after sharing an old black-and-white photograph of former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar and captioning it as "PM Imran Khan 1969".
PM Imran Khan 1969 pic.twitter.com/uiivAOfszs
— Naeem ul Haque (@naeemul_haque) 21 июня 2019 г.
As soon as Twitter users realised the scale of the blunder, they flooded his account with the wildest replies, with one posting a childhood pic of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli and captioned the photo as "Inzamam-ul-Haq [a former Pakistani cricketer] 1976:
Inzamam-ul-Haq 1976 pic.twitter.com/uGBVbplnlP
— Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) 22 июня 2019 г.
Some Twitterians shared pictures of Bollywood star, Abraaz Khan, jokingly writing that it's none other than Roger Federer, the famed Swiss tennis player, who has scooped up 20 Grand Slam singles titles - the most in history for a male player:
Roger Federer, 2010 pic.twitter.com/FMHw75ABYy
— IRONY MAN (@karanku100) 22 июня 2019 г.
Roger Federer and Vin Diesel (2019) pic.twitter.com/creWtLiQdT
— An Open Letter (@AnOpenLetter001) 22 июня 2019 г.
One netizen tweeted a snap of US singer Justin Bieber, with the caption, "Arjun Tendulkar [an Indian cricketer] 2019"...
Arjun Tendulkar, 2019 pic.twitter.com/K5xVKVm7eA
— Cynic Metalhead (@GrumpyAmb) 22 июня 2019 г.
...while another posted the photo of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Pakistani PM Khan from the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyztsan, and wrote that those were Australian cricket commentator Allan Border and Sachin Tendulkar respectively:
Tendulker with Allan Border 2019 pic.twitter.com/fX84kiOlXt
— پرنس آف ڈھمپ (@The_X2_) 22 июня 2019 г.
And, of course, one sarcasm-prone Twitterian couldn't resist sharing a photo of "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi" as Indian international cricketer MS Dhoni:
PM Narendra Damodardas Modi 1968 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/HNo0ZQjiaG
— Kaajal Rawat (@boski_kajal) 22 июня 2019 г.
The slip-up came just a few days after the prime minister was himself ridiculed online for attributing a quote by Indian writer Rabidranath Tagore to Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran:
Just came to know that this quote is by ‘Rabindranath Tagore’ and not by ‘Gibran’ @ImranKhanPTI pic.twitter.com/p9f7MHPeUg
— Shahjhan Malik (@shahjhan_malikk) 19 июня 2019 г.
