Shaniera Akram challenges Cannoli owners to an English competition
She s bored too SAMAA | Samaa Life&Style Editors Posted: Jan 23, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
Photo: Instagram/Shaniera Akram
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Shaniera Akram challenged on Friday restaurant Cannoliâs owners, who mocked their manager s English, to an English competition.
Taking to her Instagram, Akram said she was challenging the âladiesâ [Uzma and Dia] because she was bored too.
Screenshot: Instagram/Shaniera Akram
Akram, who is an Australian and does not speak Urdu well, said earlier that she understands how it feels when one is forced to speak a different language.
Cannoli owners themselves ridiculed in Ali Gul Pir video
Pakistan
Sat, Jan 23, 2021
(L-R) Aspiring stand-up comedian Akbar Chaudhry, British-Pakistani television journalist George Fulton, and rapper Ali Gul Pir, in a parody video released on Saturday, January 23, 2021. Still from video courtesy Twitter/Ali Gul Pir
The owners of an Islamabad restaurant, Cannoli by Cafe Soul, who have been shamed for ridiculing an employee over his English language skills, have themselves been mocked in a parody video posted by comedian and rapper Ali Gul Pir.
The video has been made in collaboration with British-Pakistani television journalist George Fulton, who is portrayed as the employee at the receiving end of his employers disparaging behaviour.
Cannoli owners put to shame in Ali Gul Pir, George Fulton parody video
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Saturday Jan 23, 2021
(L-R) Aspiring stand-up comedian Akbar Chaudhry, British-Pakistani television journalist George Fulton, and rapper Ali Gul Pir, in a parody video released on Saturday, January 23, 2021. Still from video courtesy Twitter/Ali Gul Pir
The two owners of restaurant Cannoli by Cafe Soul in Islamabad, who have been widely slammed for mocking their employee s English proficiency, were put to shame in a parody video posted by comedian and rapper Ali Gul Pir.
The video has been made in collaboration with British-Pakistani television journalist George Fulton, who is portrayed as the employee at the receiving end of ridicule by his employers.
Cannoli is a high-end restaurant in Islamabad. Owners of Cannoli restaurant in Islamabad lambasted for mocking their manager s english. | Photo Credit: Twitter
A video coming in from Islamabad has gone viral but it has angered the netizens in its wake. It was taken at a popular high-end restaurant in the Pakistani capital named Cannoli by Cafe Soul.
The video entails the restaurant s owners, named Uzma and Deeya, talking to the manager of the establishment, Owais, and enquiring about his English-speaking abilities as the two women were bored . Owais has been working with them since their previous restaurant and has been with them for about nine years.
In protest against #CannoliOwners, Urdu poetry recital to be held in Islamabad
Pakistan
Fri, Jan 22, 2021
Two content writers from Islamabad, working under the Limo Soda Show brand, have invited citizens to participate in an Urdu
mushaira (a poetry recital), in response to a video of two restaurant owners mocking their employee for his English language skills.
Fittingly, the event will be held outside the place where the unfortunate incident took place the restaurant Cannoli by Cafe Soul in Islamabad on Saturday, January 23.
So far 11,000 people have responded to the invitation, with 1,600 indicating they are going and 9,400 saying they are interested.