Oh my god.

Pakistan’s response to India abrogating Article 370 has been one-long stand-up comedy act which gets better and better every day.

Not only does a country that has its bigotry written into the constitution feel the need to lecture a democratic sovereign how to behave with minorities, its response on various international fora vacillates between threatening nuclear war (a bluff that has been called out) to hitting their own cash-strapped economy by adding 30 minutes of unproductivity every Friday.

It has included Javed Miandad (Mumbai blast mastermind Dawood Ibrahim’s in-law) literally threatening India with a sword at the LoC, while actors urged the Pak Army to launch a limited war!

Islamabad has also taken the fake news route to try and spread disinformation, but sometimes it just leads to hilarious consequences.

While a Pak senator asked UNO (the card game) to help Kashmiris, former Pak Envoy Abdul Basit went a step further and asked the world to ‘pray for Johnny Sins’.

Abdul Basit, who earlier claimed that Shobha De wrote a column about Kashmir after being persuaded by him, a claim De vigorously rubbished, retweeted a handle claiming Sins was a Kashmiri ‘blinded by pellets’.

The problem – the screenshot was from one of Sins’ many videos. The former Pak envoy to India was roundly mocked for his faux paus. Even though he deleted the RT, we all know the internet never forgets.

Of course we shouldn't be surprised, given that Pakistan has precedent in mislabelling images, but that's the nature of the game when trying to drive false narratives - one tends to forget their own lies.

A couple of years ago, Pakistan's top diplomat - Maleeha Lodhi - shared a picture at the UNSC claiming it was 'atrocities committed by India in Kashmir'. The problem - the picture was from Palestine.



Former Pakistani high commissioner to India Abdul Basit, mistakes Johnny Sins for a Kashmiri man who lost vision from pellet. Unreal times these, really. pic.twitter.com/9h1X8V8TKF — Naila Inayat नायला इनायत (@nailainayat) September 2, 2019

According to Former Pakistan's high commissioner to India Abdul Basit, Johnny Sins, a Kashmiri, has lost his vision from pellet gun.

So now johnny sins is new victim of pellet in #Kashmir



Diplomats ho to Aisay ho, foreign policy ke lo** laga de #Pakistan #نیب‌نیازی‌گٹھ‌جوڑ pic.twitter.com/RJZBiovGAw — Traveler (@pks7272) September 2, 2019

Former Pakistan High Commissioner to India "Abdul Basit" tweets image of adult movie star Johnny Sins claiming he is Yousuf from Anantnag #Kashmir blinded by pellet. @JohnnySins has been a plumber, a doctor, a teacher, an astronaut but Pak reduced him to a stone-pelter. pic.twitter.com/k1rrcnDyOB — jainendra joshi (@Jainendra_Joshi) September 2, 2019

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Dawood’s in-law Javed Miandad threatens India with a sword at LoC

Pak actor demands ‘limited war with India’

Twitter mocks Imran’s nuclear bluff

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