{"id":68954,"date":"2025-01-16T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/pakistan-pm-orders-inquiry-after-national-airline-ad-accused-of-evoking-911-imagery"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:49:18","slug":"pakistan-pm-orders-inquiry-after-national-airline-ad-accused-of-evoking-9-11-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68954","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PM orders inquiry after national airline ad accused of evoking 9\/11 imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online advertisement by PIA is called \u2018stupidity\u2019 by finance minister, who said PM Shehbaz Sharif had ordered an investigation<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister has ordered an investigation after the country\u2019s national airline released an advert that drew accusations that it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Official_PIA\/status\/1877555588533485884\">evoked imagery of the 9\/11 attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advert was released by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last week to celebrate the resumption of flights to Paris, which had been suspended for four years over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/eu-bans-pakistan-national-airline-flights-over-pilot-exam-cheats\">safety concerns<\/a> about its pilots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/pakistan-pm-orders-inquiry-after-national-airline-ad-accused-of-evoking-911-imagery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online advertisement by PIA is called \u2018stupidity\u2019 by finance minister, who said PM Shehbaz Sharif had ordered an investigationPakistan\u2019s prime minister has ordered an investigation after the country\u2019s national airline released an advert that drew accus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions\/68955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}