Imran Khan, The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Wrongly Credits Tagore's Quote To Kahlil Gibran
Forget making strides in Pakistan politics, PM Imran Khan seems to be busy breaking diplomatic protocols and becoming a close second to Mr Trump in the world of comical errors.
In another one of his antics that is only making his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, unpopular by the day, Khan went on to wrongly attribute a famous quote of Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore to Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran.
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Khan took to Twitter to share an inspirational quote that says, "I slept and dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
Those who discover and get to understand the wisdom of Gibran's words, cited below, get to live a life of contentment. pic.twitter.com/BdmIdqGxeL
¡ª Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 19, 2019
Khan captioned the quote, saying "Those who discover and get to understand the wisdom of Gibran's words cited below, get to live a life of contentment."
After Imran posted the picture on his official account, Twitter trolls tore him apart. Most were utterly shocked at the Prime Minister's poor research skills while others were simply tired of Khan's mistakes that just never seems to stop.
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This is what happens when you rely on quote websites to look smart instead of reading actual books. This was Tagore, not Gibran https://t.co/9axNe4uy3S
¡ª Vaqas Asghar (@vasghar) June 19, 2019
¡ª Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) June 19, 2019
Get your facts right sir, read this !!! pic.twitter.com/L2cXEkgXMT
¡ª Dr. Saagar Anand (@saagar_anand) June 19, 2019
Dear PM @ImranKhanPTI. We all know #WhatsApp had a big role in getting you "selected" but stop putting the fwds u rcv there online, especially when they are false. Like this one, which has not been said by Kahlil Gibran but Rabindranath Tagore: https://t.co/UBcNSTmykv pic.twitter.com/ljdKlwuyJK
¡ª Taha Siddiqui (@TahaSSiddiqui) June 19, 2019
Sir, these are Rabindranath Tagore's words, not Khalil Jibran's.
¡ª Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi) June 19, 2019
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. https://t.co/OVIkBdxh9c
This isn¡¯t the first time, Khan seems to have a bad habit of misquoting things and getting facts wildly incorrect. Mr Khan, during his visit to Iran, very confidently said Japan and Germany shared borders. It seemed like a slip-of-tongue statement, but the PM never bothered to correct himself.
Imran Khan was talking about how two countries set up joint industries at the border region to improve economic ties after the war, and he ended up saying Germany and Japan instead of Germany and France.
Germany & Japan are 5,500 miles apart but Imran Khan says Germany and Japan created joint industries on their border region after World War II. Inalillahe Wa Inna Ealahi Rajioon Naya Pakistan pic.twitter.com/V07douzr9C
¡ª Sidrah Memon (@SidrahMemon1) April 22, 2019
In another incident, the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan broke the diplomatic protocol at the opening ceremony of the SCO Summit here when he sat down even as all other leaders, including Indian PM Narendra Modi, were standing.
Prime Minister of #Pakistan @ImranKhanPTI's Arrival with other World Leaders at Invitation of President of Kyrgyzstan for Opening Ceremony 19th Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan (13.06.19)#SCOSummit2019 pic.twitter.com/fYdKYN3Fv7
¡ª PTI (@PTIofficial) June 13, 2019
"Imran Khan again caused national embarrassment at Bishkek, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. When everyone was standing. He sat, stood when the presenter took his name but sat again. Arrogant, ill mannered, or an idiot?" one Twitter user wrote.
Imran Khan spoke to His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz, walked out & left the interpreter to translate 4 the King. Saudi govt has protested at highest level, told Pakistan that IK¡¯s behaviour was disgusting & broke protocol rules. Meeting with the King & his Cabinet cancelled pic.twitter.com/nI6Yy2yrGD
¡ª Sidrah Memon (@SidrahMemon1) June 1, 2019
He broke yet another protocol at the 14th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit held in Saudi Arabia. Imran Khan spoke to the Saudi King's interpreter and walked off before the message could be translated, leaving the Saudi King standing alone.
