The ink on the US-Iran ceasefire agreement had barely dried when Pakistani users on X launched what critics are calling a suspiciously coordinated campaign to claim global credit — and promptly got buried in mockery for it.
Scroll through the platform for a few minutes and a pattern emerges: Pakistani nationals arriving at international airports in Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States, handing over their passports at immigration, and being personally thanked by officers for bringing peace to the Middle East. The posts follow a near-identical template, raising immediate questions about whether this was a spontaneous wave of national pride or something more orchestrated what several users are calling an ISI toolkit operation.
The script barely varies. “Just landed at an airport. Handed over my Pakistani passport for immigration and the officer smiled warmly, looked at me and said, ‘You’re a global peacemaker. We’re proud of you,'” reads one representative post. Some added photographs of airport terminals in what appeared to be a half-hearted bid for credibility.
Not every post stuck to the airport format. One user declared, “Pakistan saved India from energy crisis. At least thank us once, Indiots.” Another claimed Pakistan had pulled India back from economic collapse by brokering negotiations between warring nations. One went further still: “UNDER SHEHBAZ SHARIF & ASIM MUNIR PAKISTAN SAVED THE WORLD. Jab duniya World War III ke edge par thi, Pak ne diplomacy aur military strategy se peace deliver ki.”
The backlash was swift and unsparing, arriving in equal measure from Indian and Iranian accounts. One of the airport gratitude posts received a community note that cut to the chase: “The post is a copy-paste from other similar posts solely for the purpose of engagement farming, which is against the T&S.” A user sharing a montage of the near-identical posts declared, “Pakistan’s ISPR, ISI Toolkit activated.” Another wondered aloud about “the number of Pakistanis who have landed at an airport globally in the last 24 hours for pure orchestrated propaganda.” One account offered mock sympathy to those on the receiving end: “I hope you recover quickly from the trauma of being called a Pakistani.”
What was engineered as a diplomatic triumph has landed as international meme fodder. The ceasefire Pakistan is proudly claiming authorship of, meanwhile, remains in its most fragile state yet.
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