$85 million and fancy accents
this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse
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he massive round that Airlift managed had a lot of people whispering and others shouting from the rooftops in celebration (including the Prime Minister) that Pakistan is truly open for business. The $85 million is obviously a good thing, even if it was good news in the middle of an otherwise heavy week for this country. Accents, wannabe socialists, memeing capability, and more all feature, as Ariba Shahid brings you this week’s social media roundup.
A note on being wrong
Playing it cool Waqas didn’t have to do us dirty that bad. Ouch, our feelings are hurt. But we’re glad we have some sort of job security. We would, however, like to say in our defence that while appalling editorial standards do exist in many places, journalists also take on a lot of the messy work that no one else wants to do. Yes, we mess up, and when we do hopefully we have it in us to recognise it - at least that is how it should be. We’re trying guys.
Rolling your Rs
Did you get any calls this week? Our prime minister sure did. How do we know? Well the PM Office made sure to share tacky infographics to inform everyone of the calls he got. Sadly, no call from Biden yet. We’re assuming that particular infographic will be the best of them all. Unless of course the Prime Minister is trying to make Biden jealous with all of the calls he is getting. In that case, when(if) the call eventually comes, we advise that the honourable PM play it cool and answer with a sultry ‘hey’ and not post any infographics. In the meanwhile, here is some Ali that got a call from his dad to get yoghurt. Twitter doesn’t get any better than this.
SOCIAL MEDIA ROUNDUP
Your fancy accent shouldn’t matter if you’ve got the skills required for the job. Sadly, people do tend to get impressed by accents. Probably because of the colonial hangover we’re all suffering from. Someone with a private school education and a slight tilt in their tenor, and a few rolled Rs means they are more likely to get a job at E&Y or McKinsey than their possibly more qualified university classfellow that sounds barely comfortable in English. At the end of the day, the loss is going to be for these companies.
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