Islamabad (PTI): Pakistanis are poking fun at a beauty queen from the country who, in a recent interview, said she "condones" the Mumbai attacks.
Reigning Miss Pakistan World Natasha Paracha, a Berkley graduate, said she "condoned" the Mumbai attacks not once, but twice in an interview with CNN earlier this week.
"There are many silly, but well-meaning things she says during this interview For instance, that India and Pakistan have for many years been both 'friends' and 'colleagues', and that Natasha is somehow an ambassador 'to' Pakistan," wrote blogger Kamil Yousuf.
The especially daft one was as follows: "The image of Pakistan has been threatened with these recent attacks and I feel that now as Pakistanis we have to stand up and condone what has happened in the country of India and through these Mumbai attacks."
Yousuf wrote that though Paracha's use of the word "condone" appeared to be a slip of the tongue, she had used it again in the same interview when she said: "as an ambassador to my country Pakistan I feel that we as Pakistanis need to work together and Indians as well need to work and work on this friendship that we have and condone these attacks, thoroughly.
In his post titled "Dear Miss Pakistan World, the word is 'condemn', not 'condone'", Yousuf admitted that he did not know Pakistan had a 'Miss Pakistan World' by the name of Natasha Paracha or that she was the chairperson of Pakistani affairs with the United Nations International Renewable Energy Organisation.
