ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Imran Khan for inaccurately quoting history during a meeting with an Irani delegation in Tehran on his first-ever two-day official tour to the Islamic Republic.
Bilawal took to Twitter and wrote: “Our Prime Minister thinks that Germany and Japan share a border. How embarrassing, this is what happens when Oxford University let people in just because they can play cricket.”
😳 our Prime Minister thinks that Germany & Japan share a border. How embarrassing, this is what happenes when you @UniofOxford let people in just because they can play cricket. https://t.co/XJoycRsLG9
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) April 23, 2019
Earlier, while giving an example of France and Germany who joined hands to lay the foundation of the European Union (EU), the premier mistakenly confused France with Japan.
“The more trade you have with each other your ties automatically become stronger…Germany and Japan killed millions of their civilians until after the Second World War when they both decided to have joint industries on their border regions,” the prime minister was quoted as saying.
France and Germany together laid the foundation of the European Union (EU), which collectively helped improve the economy of the entire region.
Meanwhile, commenting upon Bilawal’s tweet, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Media Iftikhar Durrani cleared the air and wrote that “PM said border regions of Japan and Germany have joint industries” while adding that “which you, my accidental chairman, failed to grasp”.
Mr accidental chairman, where did PM say Japan is neighbouring Germany? PM said border regions of Japan and Germany have joint industries which you failed to grasp and so does few intellectuals, What a waste of stolen Public money on your oxford degree!!!
— Iftikhar Durrani (@DuraniIftikhar) April 23, 2019
