LAHORE – Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are powerful political opponents but things between the two just got intense.
After Bilawal pointed fingers at Khan’s Oxford education post his ‘Germany and Japan sharing a border’ snafu, the PTI founder hit back at PPP chairman during a recent speech in Wana in which he adressed him as “Bilawal Bhutto sahiba”.
Social media is in a split after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s highly distasteful statement. He has been criticized for his sexist remark, with the twitterati not holding back in outlining his misogyny.
Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chairman called PM Imran’s statement ‘unbecoming and reprehensible’.
https://twitter.com/CMShehbaz/status/1121045552228130816
Maryam Nawaz Sharif also expressed her disapproval of the PM’s contentious comment.
https://twitter.com/MaryamNSharif/status/1121018982402809856
Meanwhile, prominent journalists like Asma Shirazi and Meher Bokhari have also come forth calling out the PM for what he said.
https://twitter.com/meherbokhari/status/1121003301565345792
https://twitter.com/asmashirazi/status/1121007465645187072
Comedian Jeremy McLellan also slammed PM Imran taking a sarcastic dig at the statement intended to paint women in a weaker picture.
‘Sahiba’ can also mean “Gentleman.” It’s a dialect of Urdu spoken only on the Japanese-German border,” he tweeted.
https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/1121037126404063232
Others had a lot to say as well:
https://twitter.com/MuaazAhsanGeo/status/1121022451780136960
https://twitter.com/BajiPlease/status/1121028024709914624
https://twitter.com/zburki/status/1121024879925579777
Bilawal Bhutto doesn’t seem to bothered as he tweeted:
https://twitter.com/BBhuttoZardari/status/1121025336983027712
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