Ever Since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office he and his party have been facing a lot of criticism. Indeed this criticism is not unique to his party only but there’s a spotlight on this government because they have presented themselves as the only alternative and “hope” for the people of Pakistan from the usual, corrupt politicians.
A few days ago, the Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri banned the use of the word “selected” for Prime Minister Imran Khan
It was reported that on June 23, 2019 the Deputy Speaker made his pronouncement during a session of the National Assembly.
Ever since, critics of the Government have been trolling the banning
My travel agent asked me whether my preferred flight time is in the AM or PM, so I #SelectedPM.
— Khurram Husain (@KhurramHusain) June 24, 2019
Now, Pakistanis on social media have started jokes to replace words and movie names with ‘selected’ to troll the announcement
There are several trends on Twitter that have been at the top since last night.
Some of the jokes Pakistanis are making are genuinely hilarious
https://twitter.com/Haroon_Here/status/1144465342665613313
Selected driver. #ReplaceMovieNameWithSelected
— Amna Cheema (@amnacheema55) June 27, 2019
Many popular movies have been changed to include the word ‘selected’ as a taunt at the Government
Selected Zameen Pay 🤣#TareZameenPay
#ReplaceMovieNameWithSelected— Asma Barjees (@asmabarjees) June 28, 2019
https://twitter.com/ciitronian/status/1144348721444007943
However, some people also went a little too far with their criticism and took their trolling a little too far
Interestingly, all of them are ‘patwaris‘.
https://twitter.com/nohop19/status/1144381656129822725
They even started sharing fake screenshots of a Google search about using the words ‘selected party in Pakistan’ which, as we have verified, does not give the answer PTI
Lets google 😀😂😁#ReplaceMovieNameWithSelected pic.twitter.com/jpC5ggOzcw
— Chaudhary Rameez (@ChaudharyRamiiz) June 28, 2019
And then digs started happening from PTI supporters as well
https://twitter.com/TaaniJi009/status/1144429149982998529
What do you think about the ban of the word ‘selected’? Should such policing be done by the Government or is it taking things too far? Sound off in the comments below.