NEW DELHI: As India struck a JeM training camp in Pakistan early Tuesday, Twitter transformed into nothing less than a social media battleground with users deploying Bollywood references, clever words, humour and other arrows in their arsenal to make their point.
Both Indians and Pakistanis jumped at the opportunity to get down to action on the micro-blogging site, and in no time hashtags like #surgicalstrike2, #indiastrikespakistan, #indiastrikesback were topping the trending list.
Memes, videos and one-liners came thick and fast.
One of the most popular tweets from this side of the border was a tweaked version of a dialogue from the Bollywood film “Uri: The Surgical Strike”.
“How’s the Jaish?/Dead Sir,” several twitter users wrote and many others retweeted.
The oft-quoted dialogue from the hit film is, “How’s the josh? High Sir.”
A tweet by Pakistan Defence posted Tuesday midnight — “Sleep tight because PAF is awake. #PakistanZindabad” — also became the butt of jokes for India’s twitterati.
“PAF: Sleep tight because PAF is awake. Reply from IAF: 3:30am, Jaag ke kya ukhaad liya? (What did you achieve by being awake?) #Surgicalstrike2.”
Even politician Omar Abdullah couldn’t help but join in.
Retweeting Pakistan Defence’s post, he wrote, “This one will be filed under ‘tweets we wish we hadn’t put out but can’t delete now’. Don’t worry we all have them just not on this scale perhaps.”
Some tweets also took a jibe at Pakistan’s rejection of India’s claim over destroying a terror camp.
“When America killed Osama, they claimed that Osama wasn’t in Pakistan. When India killed the terrorists of 26/11 attack, they claimed that they were not Pakistanis. When India took surgical strike, They claimed/claiming that nothing has happened. #surgicalstrike2,” a tweet read. (AGENCIES)
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