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For Pakistanis, Alvi playing Wordle amid Baloch alert is next level ‘aapne ghabrana nahi hai’

Credit where it's due, Arif Alvi is better at Wordle than his government is at governing, said a Pakistani.

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New Delhi: Balochistan is in the middle of a security crisis but people think Pakistani President Arif Alvi is busy playing Wordle, the new viral social media puzzle. The President tweeting his Wordle score, before deleting it, when the country is mourning soldiers killed in Baloch attack has left many Pakistanis angry.

They think “Alvi was wordling when Balochistan was burning. Alvi reminded them of Nero, the last Roman emperor from the Julio-Claudian dynasty. History accuses Nero of fiddling while Rome was burning.

— Sanam Jamali🇵🇰 (@sana_J2) February 3, 2022

 

The Pakistani President has done this in past—post and delete after backlash. In November 2020, he deleted his tweet, citing ‘wrong information’. The President had wrongly tweeted that former Prime Minister Mir Zafrullah Jamali had died while he was still on ventilator. Back then, many had wondered if the President of Pakistan gets wrong information, what will happen to the common man.

 

Journalist Syed Talat Hussain called the President’s act shameful.

 

Taking a shot at the President, a user said: “Credit where it’s due, he’s better at Wordle than his government is at governing.”

 

Mocking Imran Khan’s election call of ‘Naya Pakistan’, another Twitter account wrote, “This is Naya #Pakistan (new Pakistan). When whole country is on HIGH ALERT due to #Balochistan war & Soldiers are dying, PM of Pakistan is on #China tour & President of Pak is playing Wordle on twitter. This is called level of “Aap ne Ghabrana nahi hai”

Some Pakistanis saw an ‘end of Pakistan’ in the President’s tweets.

 

In a tweet that may not have anticipated the backlash, President’s son Awab Alvi suggested that the whole family is fond of the game, including the President’s grandchildren.

 

Balochistan’s Panjgur and Naushki witnessed terrorist attacks on the security forces’ camps Wednesday evening. A total of 13 attackers were killed and seven soldiers died in retaliation. These attacks come close on the heels of the recent violence in Kech, Balochistan, on the night of 25-26 January. Baloch insurgents had targeted security posts, which resulted in deaths of 10 soldiers.

Commenting on the attack, Pakistani daily Dawn said in its editorial: “Coming as Prime Minister Imran Khan embarked on a visit to China, the attacks sent out an ominous message: the security situation may well be getting out of hand”.

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