Pakistan shows Red Fort tableau as Lahore's Shalimar Garden
The banquet was organized at Versailles Hall in Legendale Hotel Beijing where SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov was present.
Beijing, June 14: In a goof-up, Pakistan showed The historic Red Fort in Delhi as Lahore's Shalimar Garden at a banquet event of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Wednesday.
Later, a Pakistani official admitted that it was a "goof-up".
The 17th-century monument, from whose ramparts successive Indian Prime Ministers have delivered Independence Day speech, was on the tableau of Pakistan with the picture caption reading: "Fort and Shalimar Garden in Lahore (1981)."
"This is a goof-up. Indians and Pakistanis are friends," a Pakistani woman at the tableau who did not want to be identified, told IANS.
The
Indian
flag
fluttering
at
the
monument
was
glaring.
Indian
diplomats
were
seen
pointing
the
faux
pas
to
their
Pakistani
counterparts
at
the
event
attended
by
Chinese
Foreign
Minister
Wang
Yi.
The banquet was organized at Versailles Hall in Legendale Hotel Beijing where SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov was present.
India's Ambassador to China Vijay Gokhale and his Pakistani counterpart Masood Khalid exchanged pleasantries and spoke to each for a while.
India and Pakistan joined the SCO in Astana during the annual summit, which was concluded last week.
IANS