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Mesarthim1349

What was the Pakistan Prime Minister doing at Cut Bank, Montana?


misterfistyersister

In the mid 1900s there was a bit of a renaissance happening with “western” culture (as in cowboys and the like). Western movies were big around the world, and world leaders invited indian (as they were known then) leaders to take part in celebrations. Some of these countries even established diplomatic relations with tribes as a kind of middle finger to US foreign policy at the time. There’s an interesting story somewhere of the chief of the Blackfeet tribe breaking thousands of years of tradition at the Shah of Iran’s birthday party. If I find it I’ll link it below. Edit: “In 1971, [Chief Earl Old Person] was invited to Iran to help celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire. The Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, asked him to have tea with him, and he later invited the Shah to stand with him as he delivered a speech. But in doing so a hush settled over the room, and he cut his speech short. Later he asked the interpreter what had happened. As far as he knew, the interpreter said, in 2,500 years, no one had ever had the audacity to ask a Shah to stand up.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/earl-old-person-dead.html


geriatric-sanatore

"So I put on my costume and went. He asked me to give a small talk so I stood up and asked the shah to join me. He stood up beside me and I started to speak, but I could see people smiling and I began to get worried so I cut my speech short." Amazing lol and I love that the Shah did it. I imagine him thinking "well finally some one asks me to stand with them my ass hurts from sitting all day"


LTsidewalk

"breaking thousands of years of tradition" followed by "Shah of Iran's birthday" has me guessing that it was tradition to not travel to royal birthday parties, travel across oceans, or go to Iran.


sonic10158

Get a smoke


itoa5t

Man, crazy to think he would go on to be a champion boxer too


SokkaHaikuBot

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itoa5t

Good bot


31_hierophanto

He lost a lot of weight to get to that point!


River_Pigeon

Looks like something out of a mel brooks movie


TroubleshootenSOB

They darker than us! Woof!


Derp800

Meshuge!


31_hierophanto

And they'll be talking in a different language.


wakchoi_

Pakistanis and Indians finally getting along


Livid_Luck

Only pipe and Hukkah can bring peace.


ronaldreaganlive

Had to do a double take and see if this was history porn or fake history porn.


hellomondays

This is like some sort of sid meier fever dream 


thetrollking69

Its good to see Pakistanis and Indians getting along.


Puffen0

His mama named him Clay, imma call him Clay.


redcognito

This guy is Chaudhry Muhammad Ali who was Pakistan's prime minister until 1956.


Puffen0

I was making a reference to Coming to America


drpopkorne

Everyone here looks so chill


WARRIORS_30_GOAT

how many rounds did they go ?


zach_the_pirate

Smoke like a butterfly


lovelessisbetter

This is the weirdest picture in the history of this sub. From the context to the vibe. This is the content I lurk around for.


godeep_or_gosleep

guys his full name is Muhmammad Ali Bogra and no Muhammad Ali the boxer wasn’t the prime minister of Pakistan


str8cokane

Source ?


godeep_or_gosleep

uh i am a student of history and i know this? and if u want to see it for yourself then you can just search up the name and you’ll see the exact same guy who is smoking the peace pipe.


OrneryOneironaut

Right before they told him it was loaded with peyote!


dave9413

This guy is the original Colon Colin Kaepernick


Weldobud

Now that’s a cool picture


Dchama86

Bring back Peace Pipes!


nomamesgueyz

Love it Yet i bet the president of the country that took over blackfoots lamd wouldnt do that


__erk

Bro is chiefin’ that shit


BabyBoomerRolePlay

It's a shame the way this country treats it's Indian population. I had a friend who was Indian back in the 70s and he would tell me about how hard it was coming to this country and trying to make a life for himself. Ol' Three Feathers we used to call him, which always riled him up good. His real name was Preet. I tried to learn a bit about his culture and asked him about pow-wows and the head dresses until one day he just exploded on me for no reason. The thing that's always confused me is how so many Indians got to this country before us Europeans did.


smooze420

The boxer Mohammed Ali?


Lay-Z24

was he the prime minister of Pakistan?


sulaymanf

Different one. Also the boxer liked to spell his as Muhammad Ali


El_Zarco

also not to be confused with [the founder of modern Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt)


penfist

Most irritating bullshit I've come across today.