ISI tool kit? Pakistanis flex peacemaker tag, get roasted
India Today
Fragile as the US-Iran ceasefire may be, it still hasn't stopped the average Pakistani user on X from rushing to claim the crown of the world's peacemaker. Posts from Pakistani accounts followed a similar template, of being showered with gratitude in foreign airports. But they were roasted heavily by both Indian and Iranian accounts.
The ink on the US-Iran ceasefire agreement has barely dried, but Pakistani users on X are already rushing to crown themselves as the world's peacemakers. And by doing so, they unwittingly opened the floodgates to a hefty dose of roasting.
Scroll through the platform for even a few minutes, and you're likely to spot the same suspiciously uniform template: a Pakistani national lands at an international airport, hands over their passport, and is instantly showered with heartfelt gratitude for bringing peace to the Middle East.
Is it a coordinated ISI toolkit operation? Or just dozens of Pakistanis spontaneously having the exact same heartwarming airport experience? You decide.
The German 80s pop duo, Modern Talking once sang, "Who will save the world?" From these posts, it seems Pakistan has finally delivered the answer the duo had been looking for.
The script is painfully identical in these posts. A Pakistani traveller, out of the blue, lands in an international airport in Germany, Italy, Canada, the US, among others. Then, with passport in hand, they head to the immigration counter, and are immediately hit by a shower of gratitude heavier than rainfall at Cherrapunji at the height of the monsoon season.
There are variations here and there. Yes, but most of them go along these lines: "Just landed at an airport. Handed over my Pakistani passport for immigration and the officer smiled warmly, looked at me and said, 'You're a global peacemaker. We're proud of you'." And some of them, in a half-hearted attempt to be credible, are accompanied by purported images of the terminals of the airports they landed in. Pakistani posts flexing the country's status as a peacemaker, all following the suspiciously same format. (Images: X)
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