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35368
Sat, 12/13/2008 - 07:42
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Spoof writers poke fun at hoax call to Zardari
Islamabad, Dec 12 (PTI) Spoof writers across the globe
are churning out stories on the hoax telephone call that
almost sparked fears of a military confrontation between
nuclear-armed India and Pakistan shortly after the terror
attacks on Mumbai.
A spoof put out from Sydney with a dateline of February
1, 2013 reads: "Two hoax calls that were made to US President
Sarah Palin and Pakistan President Asif Zardari last night
brought an end to world civilization after these calls
triggered off a nuclear holocaust resulting in probable death
of over 3 billion people, half of the world's population."
The story titled "Hoax calls bring about end of the
world" says a caller pretending to be Indian Prime Minister
Lal Krishna Advani called Zardari and told him that Indian
missiles had landed on Lahore and Karachi and Islamabad was
next.
"…Zardari immediately ordered nuclear strikes on New
Delhi and Mumbai in retaliation which resulted in
counter-strikes by India. India hit back strongly by nuking
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Hyderabad. And Pakistan went up
in smoke!" wrote a spoof writer known as Sunil Bhuneja.
Zardari reportedly took a phone call from a man
pretending to be India's External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee on November 28, apparently without following the
usual verification procedures.
The hoax caller threatened military action against
Pakistan in response to the then ongoing Mumbai attacks. India
subsequently clarified that Mukherjee had made no such call to
Zardari.
According to the spoof, as India and Pakistan were
being attacked, another hoax caller called "US President Sarah
Palin" and claimed to be Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev.
The prank caller informed Palin that Russia has nuked
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. "Palin ordered half a dozen
Russian cities to be nuked. But due to missile-launcher
malfunction, a couple of them landed on Chinese soil by
mistake.
Within next half an hour, the US was inundated by
nuclear missiles from both Russia and China landing on all its
major cities," the spoof item said.
When Palin was running for vice-presidency, she got
hoaxed by a Canadian DJ who pretended to be French President
Nicholas Sarkozy. PTI
are churning out stories on the hoax telephone call that
almost sparked fears of a military confrontation between
nuclear-armed India and Pakistan shortly after the terror
attacks on Mumbai.
A spoof put out from Sydney with a dateline of February
1, 2013 reads: "Two hoax calls that were made to US President
Sarah Palin and Pakistan President Asif Zardari last night
brought an end to world civilization after these calls
triggered off a nuclear holocaust resulting in probable death
of over 3 billion people, half of the world's population."
The story titled "Hoax calls bring about end of the
world" says a caller pretending to be Indian Prime Minister
Lal Krishna Advani called Zardari and told him that Indian
missiles had landed on Lahore and Karachi and Islamabad was
next.
"…Zardari immediately ordered nuclear strikes on New
Delhi and Mumbai in retaliation which resulted in
counter-strikes by India. India hit back strongly by nuking
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Hyderabad. And Pakistan went up
in smoke!" wrote a spoof writer known as Sunil Bhuneja.
Zardari reportedly took a phone call from a man
pretending to be India's External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee on November 28, apparently without following the
usual verification procedures.
The hoax caller threatened military action against
Pakistan in response to the then ongoing Mumbai attacks. India
subsequently clarified that Mukherjee had made no such call to
Zardari.
According to the spoof, as India and Pakistan were
being attacked, another hoax caller called "US President Sarah
Palin" and claimed to be Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev.
The prank caller informed Palin that Russia has nuked
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. "Palin ordered half a dozen
Russian cities to be nuked. But due to missile-launcher
malfunction, a couple of them landed on Chinese soil by
mistake.
Within next half an hour, the US was inundated by
nuclear missiles from both Russia and China landing on all its
major cities," the spoof item said.
When Palin was running for vice-presidency, she got
hoaxed by a Canadian DJ who pretended to be French President
Nicholas Sarkozy. PTI
