PTV set up 'Begging' Dateline instead of 'Beijing, said sorry to  Imran Khan
PTV set up 'Begging' Dateline instead of 'Beijing, said sorry to Imran Khan
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ISLAMABAD:   Pakistan's official television channel PTV has apologized to Pakistan's newly-elected PM Imran Khan. During the visit of Imran Khan during the visit of China, PTV had set up 'Begging' Dateline instead of 'Beijing', which caused Pakistan had to face a world-wide mockery. Actually, Imran Khan went on a tour to China to ask for an economic package for Pakistan.

Imran Khan was addressing a function at the Central Park School of Beijing on Sunday, when PTV had run the wrong date line during the live broadcast. However, instead of Beijing, the word Begging was only 20 seconds on the TV screen appeared, then it was immediately corrected. But in such a short time people made memes and they went viral on social media by creating a screenshot of it.

People were also criticizing PTV on social media. The mistake as well as in a while  was also trending on Twitter. After a lot of joke on social media, PTV has said in a tweet on his official Twitter account that it was due to the mistake of typing. It apologized and PTV also said that it will take against the employee who is responsible for this error. 

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