Its not some blogger who concocted this story. The ad with the Indian naval ships was printed in two Pakistani newspapers - The Nation and Nawa-e-Waqt.
No, its based out of some fictitious blogger sighting. As for Indian bloggers and their credibility, we all know ever since India made that blunder with the PAF chief in it, they have been jumping out of their pants to somehow demean Pakistan.
Prove it, I read the Nation on a daily basis and have never seen any Pak Navy Ads. on it. It's the LAST place where both the Federal Govt or the Army would place ads, because just like Daily Times, it is owned and inclined towards a political party. If anything, such an advertisement would come out in the Dawn.
Not really, and even if they had Indian reporters in Pakistan, why is it that the story originated from 'Islamabad', when the Navy is Karachi based and the fact the whole story revolves around a fictitious online Hindustani blogger in cyberspace who claimed he saw a picture, took a screenshot and 'cited' it, haha Indian media might call it a real citation and stamped it to Islamabad to make it more credible.
Foreign media does not post such garbage articles based out of fictitious blogger claims, so I doubt any reputed media representative in Islamabad would be doing it. Furthermore, you can only see this article published in the Indian media, with the same exact wordings.
Your ability for grasping things has vanished in air..
I have explained you why the report has emnated from Islamabad and not from the middle of a sea. Pls read again.
Here are the two images on both `The Nation and the other urudu one Nawa-e-Waqt :rotfl: The blogger has ldetailed them out there
Now from tribune,pls read on
From Tribune
**KARACHI: ** An advertisement published on behalf of the Pakistan Navy for a multi-national exercise prominently featured images of Indian Navy warships – even though India is not among the countries invited to participate in the manoeuvres being held in the Arabian Sea, the website of an Indian magazine reported on Wednesday.
This is not the first time that such a mistake has crept into advertisements issued by government agencies in India and Pakistan. In March last year, an advertisement issued by the police force in Pakistan’s Punjab province featured the logo of its counterpart in India’s Punjab state.
In January last year, an Indian government advertisement pictured former Pakistan Air Force chief Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and cricketer Kapil Dev.
The full-page advertisement for the AMAN-11 exercise, which appeared in The Nation and Nawa-e-Waqt newspapers, featured images of the Indian Navy’s Delhi, Godavari and Talwar-class warships, reported Outlook magazine. It also featured images of US warships under the slogan: “Together for peace”.
Orient Advertising, the company which made the ad on behalf of the navy, used a picture from Indian navy’s exercise Malabar exercise held last year in which US and Indian warships participated to highlight the ongoing Pakistan navy’s AMAN-11 exercise currently being held by the Arabian Sea.
CEO Orient arrived early morning in Karachi and was asked to explain his position by navy officials, who faced embarrassment because of the advertisement.
The CEO reportedly also held a meeting at his Karachi office with his co-workers to address the issue. Senior navy officials refused to give a comment on the record. However, they said that they were not taking the issue lightly and were considering the option of taking the ad agency to court.
A regional director at Orient said that unlike previous years, the ad was not prepared by the agency’s team in Karachi, but was made by their Islamabad office, where the CEO of the company sits.
The company is blaming its Islamabad based creative director for the blooper. Orient’s Regional Director Islamabad did not return calls to give his version. The CEO too refused to speak with The Express Tribune despite repeated attempts even though he was in Karachi.
Human error – which has crept into the pages of this newspaper enough times – is clearly the evident cause of the mistake, said one media observer, adding “If nothing else perhaps this error is a sign that the Pakistani navy should have extended an invitation to our neighbours to participate, thereby helping lower the continued tensions that persist between the two countries militaries.”
Pooo booo koooo Same Islamic/Pak card after losing arguemnt,as always…
Sorry spock,you are my friend and there is nothing personal against you.Even I started this thread asking this news as a `compensation’ for Indian officials earlier blunders…
^ Losing an argument to you is just like losing an argument to Laloo Prasad Yadav...
Compensation for Indian blunders? You make these blunders yourself and then you seek compensation from us? Why are you full of hate, that you seek retribution from your own blunders from us? LOL Now unless the ISI posted that image on purpose, that feeling in your heart reeks of Hindutva sentiments, and makes you no different than Supreme Hindu Leader Bal Thackerey.
P.S. So an 'ad agency' made the mistake, not the Pakistan Navy, in your case it was the officials that made the mistake. That bloke narrating the Portugal Minister's speech was no hired consultant, he was an Indian minister and was clueless about what he was saying until he was stopped.
^Hahahahahahaha Spock ,my friend you are again getting heated up and getting personal here.
I have not exprtessed anything Anti Pak here,but I was just quoting your newspapers and ours. Lolzzzz So your national or religious sentimental cards won’t work here.Again I know your gimmick.You just want a moderator to engage in this topic.but there is no Anti-Pak here…
Regards Balls Thackeray and all..I do not have any idea. You are desperately trying to create some debate here and also inorder to escape this lose of face you want to derail this thread.That’s all.
Here is one from your daily reading newspaper `The News’ :p(You said it and you asked for it and you got it now) .
By Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Blame it on the Aman Ki Asha! Why else would everyone, including the Pakistan Navy, be getting carried away with Aman?
As a seminar is underway in Karachi between Pakistan and India under the auspices of Aman Ki Asha, close to it in the Arabian Sea, the 5-day multinational naval exercise Pakistan Navy’s Aman-2011 has kicked off with 12 participating countries and 28 observer countries. Naturally, India has not been invited.
So far so good!
However, one wonders if it was in the spirit of Aman Ki Asha or one of the most deplorable mistakes made by the Pakistan Navy which, while placing a full page advertisement in two Lahore-based newspapers, “prominently featured images of the Indian Navy warships instead of Pakistani ships, even though India is not participating.”
Either these two conservative Lahore newspapers are unaware of it or keeping quiet about the goof-up. Surely, if any other newspaper had made this mistake, by now several editorials and opinion pieces would have appeared against the erring daily, which has already spurned the idea of Aman with India.
The News and PTI were alerted by this goof- up, with the PTI reporting that, “Within hours of the Pakistan Navy’s advertisement being posted on the websites of newspapers, blogger Shahid Saeed posted the original image of American and Indian warships from the Malabar 2010 exercise that was used in the advertisement.”
The advertisement had been prepared by Orient and was released through the PID. The question arises why did the Pakistan Navy not vet the advertisement before it was released or are those responsible at sea as usual?
Though to an untrained eye, the images of these ships cannot be distinguished from those of the ‘enemy’ and ‘ours,’ but those at the Indian High Commission quickly categorized them as those of the Indian Navy’s Delhi, Godavari and Talwar-class warships.
The PTI reported that the images of US warships were also included in the advertisement under the slogan “Together for peace”. The Pakistan Navy did not deem it fit in the ‘national interest’ to include a Pakistani ship.
The PTI reports: “This was not the first time that such a mistake has crept into advertisements issued by government agencies in India and Pakistan.
“In March last year, an advertisement issued by the police force in Pakistan’s Punjab province featured the logo of its counterpart in India’s Punjab state.
“In January last year, an Indian government advertisement pictured former Pakistan Air Force chief Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and cricketer Kapil Dev.” And of course Azad Kashmir being shown as part of India has been a common enough mistake.
Common guys, we know Aman Ki Asha is ‘contagious’ but at least keep your facts right. The men in white are blushing so hard that they refused to entertain any telephone calls, text messages or emails from The News. Finally, DG ISPR General Athar Abbas responded by saying, “It has been brought to my notice and a fresh advertisement will now be placed instead.”
But the best is the joke doing the rounds in Rawalpindi, after the goof-up. “Big brother Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir is trying his best to improve relations with India through political dialogue. So maybe younger brother Admiral Noman Bashir thought he could help by including India in the advertisement, so Delhi would not feel too unwanted since it was not invited!” :omg:
P.S. So an 'ad agency' made the mistake, not the Pakistan Navy, in your case it was the officials that made the mistake. That bloke narrating the Portugal Minister's speech was no hired consultant, he was an Indian minister and was clueless about what he was saying until he was stopped.
So now from an Indian blogger, its an ad agency. Maybe it was a RAW/Mossad *saazish ;) *
And you read the Nation daily, so how did you miss this ad ? :D