Since morning, a hashtag of Sherlock Holmes has been trending on social media and by that, you might have thought Henry Cavill who recently starred in a movie reprising the famous detective’s role but to our surprise, Twitterati’s Sherlock Holmes is nonother than Imran Khan.
Freedom of journalism is unquestioningly a good thing. However, sometimes liberation comes with a cost. The same happened with Imran Khan who gave interviewed by Chinese media.
During the interview, the interviewer called the ex-prime minister ‘Sherlock Holmes’ on the basis of his suspecting the opposition party of the attack.
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According to the interview, she compared Khan to Holmes because he was acting a bit like Sherlock Holmes. However, netizens did not take the interview well and mocked the Chinese journalist immature and disrespectful.
Don’t really endorse Melissa’s anti-China rhetoric but she’s quite right about Khan being acting like Sherlock Holmes. https://t.co/510YhljZTz
— Dan (@stealthychad) November 11, 2022
Khan cannot answer the questions with proofs so he manoeuvres his way out of the questions by acting like Sherlock Holmes. https://t.co/jetNfJzw1p
— Sardar Jaagan Bhayo (@SardarBhayo) November 11, 2022
You’re such an immature disrespectful interviewer @melissakchan. You’re extremely lucky he’s a gentleman. Who tells a ex PM who recently faced an assassination attempt that he’s behaving like Sherlock Holmes. You’ve no idea about Pakistan and the impact of the US Coup. https://t.co/ulRhdx0Ggh
— Lorena Dyson (@LorenaDyson) November 11, 2022
I compared Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, to populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro. To his credit, he took it okay. In the full interview I also told him he was acting a bit like Sherlock Holmes so there was a lot going on! ???? Watch! @dwnews: https://t.co/LhieRYeh9t pic.twitter.com/IosSqViJ6b
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) November 10, 2022
Hey @melissakchan , open your comments section, where’s the professionalism now? let us Pakistanis answer your snarky ‘SheRloCk HolMes’ statement with facts. Go on, show some spine. Open it for a debate. Journalism isn’t a monologue.
— BibliovertAfridi (Pardesi Akhroat) (@SpeckyPukhtana) November 11, 2022
Sherlock Holmes. ???????? pic.twitter.com/6shEnzJgyz
— Naila Inayat (@nailainayat) November 11, 2022
A former head of state from the 5th largest country survives an assassination attempt and DW host labels him “Sherlock Holmes” because he suspects his opponents planned it.
Is this your journalistic standard @dwnews? Would you react same if Merkel, or another European, was shot? https://t.co/2bYCWQo3Nw
— Hamza (@HamzaKK) November 11, 2022
Sherlock Holmes was a drugs addictive character as well ,
isky ilawa usy mental syndrome disorders bhi thi..
kia haseen imtezaaj hy KHAN sahb ka or Sherlock sahb ka ???????? pic.twitter.com/q3YKmUkRx7— Raja Faizan Ahmed (@RajaFaizan77) November 12, 2022
Another day, another embarrassing interview for ousted ex-PM @ImranKhanPTI, this time with @dwnews. The anchor invoked Sherlock Holmes and the possibility of Khan becoming “a liar” if he could not prove PM @CMShehbaz was behind an assassination attempt:
/1pic.twitter.com/kDxIxgTWqp— Ahmed Quraishi (@_AhmedQuraishi) November 11, 2022
