mar 17th, 2010
no wonder they sent this guy to india and the us as envoy. the pakistanis think they are big in certain departments.
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Saudi Arabia rejects Pakistani diplomat because of his name.
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http://www.foxnews. com/story/ 0,2933,584807, 00.html
Owing to an unfortunate matter of translation, Pakistani diplomat
Akbar Zeb will not become the next Pakistani ambassador to
Saudi Arabia.
Mr Zeb's credentials are impressive: he is the former envoy to
the United States, India, South Africa and Canada. But despite
his impressive career, his name proved to be an immovable
hurdle.
When translated into Arabic, it means "Large penis".
In a region that stresses modesty in public, this could not stand.
Akbar is a customary Muslim name meaning "great", and while
Zeb is not an uncommon Pakistani name, in Arabic it is a slang
reference to the penis and never used in polite conversation.
Obviously the diplomat's Arab hosts felt that references to "His
Excellency the Big Dick" would not go over well.
A Saudi cultural critic said, "The media wouldn't dare to publish
a name like this. So every time he would be in the media they
would have to face the name issue, and it would make it difficult
to work with him. That would be an embarrassment for Pakistan."
Said an analyst, "You cannot just pronounce that name. It's too
awkward.
How would he be announced at events? How would he be written
about?"
According to the Arab Times, this is the third instance of an
Arabic-speaking country refusing Mr. Zeb's ambassadorship
David Kenner of Foreign Policy magazine wrote that the issue was
a source of embarrassment for Pakistan. "One can only assume
that submitting Zeb's name to Arabic-speaking countries is some
unique form of punishment designed by the Pakistani Foreign
Ministry," he wrote, "Or the result of a particularly egregious cock-
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7 comments:
Many converts to I-slam in other pats of the world, like Malaysia, for example, have also wondered what their names mean.
The major mess called I-slam insists on Arabic names for all converts, most of whom don't know any Arabic. A million more cock-ups loom over the horizon.
In the same space what will
Aurang Zeb, the Hindu torturer stand for?
What will Pakis who revere him so much have to say about that?
this sounds like a joke. Are you serious?
Hilarious!!! You can always be 100% sure of the pakis doing such a thing. Shooting themselves in the foot or mouth is a activity they have taken to artistic levels and perfected it.
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would the name Zeb-un-nisa mean? Common name amongst Muslim ladies. Does it mean a Zeb Lover or a slave of the Zeb or the like, in light of the elucidation of Zeb above ?
Zeb un Nisa in Arabic means dick of the woman. Because Nisa means woman and Zeb we know what it means.
Aurangzeb would mean colorful dick
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