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Twitterati in surprise as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf tweets in Hindi

Users responded with all kinds of tweets ranging from questioning the PTI's intent to wondering who in Pakistan had such good knowledge of the language

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Twitterati in India, and perhaps Pakistan too, was in for a surprise on Monday morning when it came across a tweet in Hindi posted by @PTIofficial — the official Twitter account of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in the neighbouring country. Not only did the party choose the Devanagri script to convey its leader and the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s reaction to the campaign demanding a Nobel Peace Prize for him, but also composed the tweet in chaste Hindi. To summarise the message conveyed in the tweet, it quoted Khan as saying that he did not consider himself

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