While India was celebrating its 66th Republic Day, our neighbours were in severe need of Burnol. The USA has for long been supporting Pakistan through financial aid, and today, when India managed to get Obama to come to India to witness its Republic Day celebrations, there was severe heartburn in store for Pakistanis.
Although our celebration, in no way tried to demean Pakistan, Pakistani Social Media users vented out their pent-up frustration by trending the hash-tag #RapePublicDay. What started off as a hash-tag to highlight India’s problems with women security, soon showed its real agenda i.e. to denigrate India at any costs. Here are few of the tweets with this hashtag:
https://twitter.com/ProudofPK/status/559603201876295680
https://twitter.com/FatimaAli52/status/559598447704039424
https://twitter.com/Faizamuskan751/status/559598672837877760
It soon took Communal colours…
https://twitter.com/MaanImranKhan/status/559616719606386688
https://twitter.com/hadiyashah1/status/559657962336034816
https://twitter.com/MUmar321/status/559674461939433472
And soon went to express their frustrations over various actions of USA…
https://twitter.com/DrAyesha4/status/559420784813551616
https://twitter.com/Imidreeskhan/status/559387501987516418
And also some Domestic and International Politics came to the fore:
https://twitter.com/FarhanKVirk/status/559383816960086016
https://twitter.com/KaptaanKiTigres/status/559418441996980224
It is interesting to note, most of the people who used this deplorable Hash-tag, were supporters of Imran Khan, and the idea of “Naya Pakistan”. As Indians, we can surely say “Naya Pakistan” is almost like Purana Pakistan for us!