Grapevine
Which Fever?
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was interviewed in New York by CNN just a few hours before the Palestine-Israel ceasefire. His remark against Israel that it was controlling the media and had “deep pockets” was construed by the female interviewer Bianna Golodryga as being anti-Semitic. Though anti-Semitism was hardly on Qureshi’s mind, he could have used the opportunity to talk about the West’s Islamophobia paranoia.
Sofagate
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was left without a gilded chair at a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. EU Council President Charles Michel, took the only other gilded chair next to Erdoğan. Ursula Leyen got to sit on a nearby sofa. She suggested ‘sexism’ at the root of the seating blunder, known as “sofagate”. The meeting was arranged to repair strained relations between the EU and Turkey.
Angry Burst
Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, Punjab Chief Minister’s Special Assistant on Information, burst out in anger against Assistant Commissioner Sonia Sadaf when they visited a Ramadan bazaar in Sialkot. Firdous Awan got uncontrollably angry when some shoppers complained about substandard edibles being sold. Firdous asked the assistant commissioner if she had ever visited the bazaar and admonished her severely in front of the media.
Fight Show
A fight started when comedian Basit Ali was enraged in a show on Neo TV and started shouting that society did not allow women dancing as it was vulgarity.“This is my show,” said the host Nabiha Ijaz.“You’re on a morning show. You knew the format and that there would be women, singing, dancing and games.”
The question is, why did the producer not cut to a break and allowed the fight to go live?
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