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Published 10:44 IST, June 23rd 2020

'Pakistan's international code 92 as Imran won World Cup in 1992': Netizens mock minister

Pakistani netizens took to Twitter to mock Minister Zartaj Gul Wazi, questioning her logic behind her bizarre statements on the definition of COVID-19

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Shortly after her bizarre comments explaining the definition of COVID-19 went viral, Pakistani netizens took to Twitter to mock Minister Zartaj Gul Wazi, questioning her logic behind her statements. In a recent incident, Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change, while educating the country regarding the COVID-19 virus on a national television broadcast, claimed that it was named so because it had '19 points which affected different countries differently.'

"First they say it's a pandemic, then they said its an endemic. You have to live with it till it's the vaccine is developed. It's a flu. COVID-19 means that it has 19 points which can apply to different countries in different ways," said Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul. 

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Netizens react

The video clip of her interview soon went viral on Twitter with her name trending on the social networking site earning a mixed set of responses. Some netizens lamented the choice of the Imran Khan-led government and questioned why she was put in charge of such an important Ministry at a time when the world was facing a larger looming danger of climate change. Others simply mocked her reasoning, questioning the logic behind it. Here are some reactions-

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Updated 10:44 IST, June 23rd 2020