Cat filter turns Pakistani politicians’ press conference into frisky business

Pakistani minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai was livestreaming a press conference on Facebook when something went awry. Yousafzai was momentarily turned into a cat with the help of a Facebook filter on Monday.

Yousafzai had the cat filter on for several minutes during the livestream. Other politicians were also affected by the filter.

So this happened today when PTI's SM team forgot to turn off the cat filter while live streaming a press conference on Facebook. @SAYousafzaiPTI looks kinda cute pic.twitter.com/IjjJrua7DL

— Ahsan Hamid Durrani (@Ahsan_H_Durrani) June 14, 2019

What have this official PTI KPK Facebok page has done with KPK Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai !
This is INSANE. @SAYousafzaiPTI pic.twitter.com/bttJt5FrdB

— Mohsin Bilal Khan (@MohsinBilalKhan) June 14, 2019

According to KP government’s social media team we now have a cat in the cabinet #Filter pic.twitter.com/LNl7zwOfLU

— Mansoor Ali Khan (@_Mansoor_Ali) June 14, 2019

Yousafzai was probably speaking about serious, political business when a volunteer accidentally turned on the cat filter–giving him pink ears and whiskers.

The video, which was posted to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s official Facebook page, was quickly taken down. The party then released a statement, calling the cat blunder a “human error.”  The party wrote that actions have been taken to “avoid such incident in the future.”

People don’t seem to mind the error.

“Continue making such human errors and spreading smiles…there’s not much else to smile about nowadays anyway!” Madiha Saeed wrote on Twitter.

Continue making such human errors and spreading smiles…there's not much else to smile about nowadays anyway!

— Madiha Saeed (@MadihaSSheikh) June 15, 2019

Yousafzai also made light of the situation.

“I wasn’t the only one,” Yousafzai told Agence France-Presse. “Two officials sitting along me were also hit by the cat filter.”

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