President Arif Alvi’s son Awab Alvi in a tweet urged people to use the word “Indian Variant” instead of “Delta Variant”.
“Can we as Pakistanis stop using the word ‘Delta Variant’ and call it the ‘Indian Variant’,” wrote Awab.
“It was & is predominant the variant which started in India Slowly & steadily the Indian lobby globally want to avoid negative narrative Let’s call them out on this,” he added.
Alvi did a follow-up Tweet in which he asked Pakistanis what would they support calling the new variant? He gave two options: “Indian Variant” and “Delta Variant”. More than 60 per cent of the votes were given to Delta Variant.
Have a look at how Twitter reacted to the request :
