Pakistan Airlines advertisement shows a plane flying over the Eiffel Tower

He drew widespread criticism for releasing an ad showing a Pakistani flag-carrying plane flying into the Eiffel Tower.

The ad was meant to re-promote Pakistan International Airlines’ flights to the French capital and had the tagline: “We are coming to Paris today”.

Some social media users noted the ad’s similarity to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

“Is this an advertisement or a threat?” A user wrote on X. Another called for the company to “fire your marketing manager.”

The image has been viewed more than 21 million times on X since it was published last week and has sparked an immediate response.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into the matter, while Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dharm has criticized the announcement, Pakistan’s Geo News reported.

of 9/11 attacks Hijackers crash passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the twin towers of the Pentagon in Washington, DC, killing nearly 3,000 people.

The mastermind of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003.

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda extremist network, who planned the attack He was killed by US troops in Pakistan in 2011.

Pakistani journalist Omar Qureshi said the PIA ad was “really eloquent”.

“Didn’t the airline management investigate this?

“Didn’t you know about the 9/11 disaster – using airplanes to attack buildings?” on X.

The airline has not commented on the matter.

But PIA is no stranger to controversy.

Some of X’s users noticed that in 1979, the airline published an ad showing the shadow on the twin towers of a passenger jet.

In 2017, the airline was mocked by the staff Sacrifice a goat to avoid bad luck Following one of the nation’s worst air disasters.

And in the year In 2019, PIA created an uproar when flight attendants were told to reduce or stand down. The workers were told that they had six months to shed “excessive weight”.