{"id":5622,"date":"2007-05-15T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2007-05-15T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:41:00","slug":"the-czechered-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-czechered-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Czechered Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adil Najam has <a href=\"http:\/\/pakistaniat.com\/2007\/05\/11\/pakistan-czech-republic-flag-diplomacy-check-checkered\/\" title=\"Picture of the day: Welcoming the 'Check' prime minister -- Adil Najam\">a hilarious post<\/a> here on something he saw recently in Islamabad. The Czech prime minister was due to visit, and to welcome him, the government&#8217;s PR people decided to put up a banner with the Czech flag and Pakistan&#8217;s flag together. Only, instead of the Czech flag, they put the checkered flag, as you can see in the image below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/Czech-flag-by-Adil-Najam.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"420\" height=\"161\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Immensely typical of a subcontinental government. I can quite imagine a mid-level mandarin telling his flunky, &#8220;Check jhanda laga do yaar.&#8221; And the flunky nods, pleased at being given a task that is so easy to carry out.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"\/site\/contact\/\" title=\"India Uncut feedback\">feedback<\/a> from reader Scribina.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a> points out that the bureaucrat probably <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.in\/images?q=check%20flag&amp;hs=BIF&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\" title=\"Google search: \"check flag\"\">used Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adil Najam has <a href=\"http:\/\/pakistaniat.com\/2007\/05\/11\/pakistan-czech-republic-flag-diplomacy-check-checkered\/\" title=\"Picture of the day: Welcoming the 'Check' prime minister -- Adil Najam\">a hilarious post<\/a> here on something he saw recently in Islamabad. The Czech prime minister was due to visit, and to welcome him, the government&#8217;s PR people decided to put up a banner with the Czech flag and Pakistan&#8217;s flag together. Only, instead of the Czech flag, they put the checkered flag, as you can see in the image below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Czechered Flag - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-czechered-flag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Czechered Flag - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adil Najam has a hilarious post here on something he saw recently in Islamabad. 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