On 14th August, a video went viral on social media. It confirmed lots of of Pakistanis gathered close to the Burj Khalifa ready to see their flag displayed on the world’s tallest skyscraper.
A Pakistani girl narrates, How Pakistan flag did not present up on Burj Khalifa on their Independence day😂😂🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WNbEOetANL
— Gems of Politics (@GemsOf_Politics) August 14, 2023
The video narrator says that it’s already previous midnight however no Pakistan flag has been displayed. “Pakistanis you have been pranked, people are saying you deserve this”. The Pakistani public was seen rising Pakistan Zindabad slogans, however Burj Khalifa stays clean.
On 15 August, a preferred Pakistani YouTube channel Sana Amjad shared a video the place Pakistanis have been visibly upset that on 14 August Dubai’s iconic Burj Khalifa didn’t show the Pakistani flag and wished Pakistan on the event of their Independence Day.
The host Sana Amjad shared that numerous Pakistanis residing in Dubai had gathered close to Burj Khalifa, whose fashionable and vibrant shows within the glass face of the world’s tallest skyscraper are a preferred vacationer attraction.
However, apparently, Pakistanis have been left disenchanted. Speaking to Amjad, Pakistanis expressed disappointment and lamented over Pakistan shedding its stature. They even acknowledged that on fifteenth August Burj Khalifa will certainly show vibrant congratulatory needs for India, for the Indian Independence Day.
The unhappy and dismayed Pakistanis claimed that UAE’s love for India is due to a powerful commerce partnership and Pakistan is shedding the adore it earlier loved due to financial causes. The host even asserted that not simply Independence Day messages, Burj Khalifa repeatedly shows PM Modi’s picture to reward and congratulate him for varied causes. For some motive, the video was made unavailable on Youtube.
In truth, ranging from 14th August when Pakistanis began getting upset over the shortage of show on the Burj Khalifa, social media was abuzz with speculations and trolling from the Indian aspect about Pakistan getting snubbed by Burj Khalifa.
The offended reactions by Pakistanis grew to become a subject of dialogue in India too.
A video went viral on social media displaying dismayed Pakistanis ready close to Burj Khalifa for the show, saying that the show by no means got here. It was grabbed by many meme makers in India to troll Pakistanis.
#BurjKhalifa Burj Khalifa final night time on #Pakistan’s 76th Independence Day. #HappyIndependenceDayPakistan
pic.twitter.com/gpznCoQbC9
— No Context Cricket (@nocontextcric_) August 14, 2023
Pakistani: “We want our flag on Burj Khalifa”
UAE: “We don’t promote bhikhari in Dubai”pic.twitter.com/y5Qdg3Y04V
— Prof.N John Camm (@njohncamm) August 14, 2023
Finally, the Instagram deal with of Burj Khalifa shared a video, the place they confirmed Pakistan’s nationwide flag and an Independence Day message have been displayed on the constructing.
However, there was an issue with the show. The congratulatory message confirmed ‘Happy 76th Independence Day’ for Pakistan. This triggered one other debate on social media on whether or not the message was only a ‘typo’ or Burj Khalifa simply performed final 12 months’s video.
However, the final 12 months’s show didn’t embrace any 76th, or any quantity. It simply had Pakistan’s flag and performed Pakistan’s anthem by Navy Band.
In 2022, Emaar’s official Instagram deal with displayed Pakistan’s flag and performed Pakistan’s nationwide anthem to congratulate Pakistan on its Independence Day.
Pakistan and India are celebrating 77th Independence Day, not 76th
The show of the 76th Independence Day on Burj Khalifa created one other hypothesis that this was in all probability a mistake completed in haste or a earlier 12 months’s video has been performed.
Video uploaded by Burj Khalifa confirmed ’76th Independence Day’
Many Pakistani handles shared the video shared by Burj Khalifa, claiming the show occurred and that it was the 76th Independence Day.
However, the federal government of Pakistan, in Pakistan has been formally celebrating the 77th Independence Day, identical to India, as a result of it has been precisely 76 years since 1947. So as 14 August (fifteenth August for India) was the first Independence Day, 2023 makes the 77th Independence Day.
The official deal with of the President of Pakistan has wished fellow residents on the event of the 77th Independence Day, not the 76th, as claimed by the Dubai skyscraper.
President Dr. Arif Alvi hoisting Pakistan’s nationwide flag on the official Flag Hoisting ceremony on the 77th Independence Day of Pakistan, in Islamabad.#14August2023 pic.twitter.com/EsLFu4SJ0n
— The President of Pakistan (@PresOfPakistan) August 14, 2023
It isn’t clear whether or not the ’76th’ half was an inadvertent error by some technician or certainly an previous video was performed.
Burj Khalifa’s I-Day needs for India haven’t any ambiguity, no confusion, skyscraper lit as much as show a vibrant Tricolour for India
No such confusions and controversies have been made for India although. The Burj Khalifa did mild up in a vibrant show of the colours of the Indian flag, to the enjoyment and cheers of Indians, on the event of the 77th Independence Day of India.
Indian flag on the Burj Khalifa with the nationwide anthem.
A goosebumps second! 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/K6sxXODZhI
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) August 15, 2023
The shows at Burj Khalifa are a supply of pleasure for ex-pat Indians and Pakistanis. However, the controversy and confusion over this 12 months’s show appear to have made our neighbors upset.
It is comprehensible right here that on the stroke of midnight on 14th August, there was no show of the Pakistani flag on Burj Khalifa, which understandably made Pakistanis offended, as a lot of them anticipate a particular friendship from the UAE, for being a ‘Muslim’ nation. It is feasible that after gauging social media reactions, the Burj Khalifa deal with shared the show, albeit with a typo, calling it the 76th Independence Day.