Pakistan's ISI predicts an earthquake and Twitterati can't stop laughing

Many on the microblogging site took a dig at Pakistan's intelligence agency for predicting earthquakes but failing to track PoK terror camps

Kanishk Singh
Nov 05, 2017

Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence) was able to do something that even the best of seismologists find difficult doing – predict an earthquake coming. Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistan ambassador to the US, posted an Information Report from Rehabilitation Wing of Pakistan’s Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) on Twitter that predicted the ‘likelihood of large-scale earthquake’ which had the capacity to ‘vigorously shake the Asian continental areas, including Pakistan’.

ISI predicts earthquake in Indian Ocean. Didn’t know it was #Pakistan’s Geological Survey & Early Earthquake Warning system too. pic.twitter.com/k6bKfgDAnf

— Husain Haqqani (@husainhaqqani) November 2, 2017

Twitter had a field day with many Tweeps confused about the circular which allegedly came from the Directorate General of ISI. Many questioned the intelligence agency’s competency. Take a look at some of the reactions:

Confusion>#Twitter after #Pakistan #ISI predicts #earthquake-WhyIntelligence Agency-CanOnlyAssumeSomeSecret #NuclearTest Is Going To Happen.

— Canada For Canadians (@VigilantCanada) November 4, 2017

Now this is what I would call an extraordinary “intelligence” agency. ISI predicts an earthquake! Do we need to evacuate Karachi? pic.twitter.com/gg73Jko3RN

— karachi ahab (@karachiahab) November 2, 2017

An earthquake circular from ISI? Wow…what a multitalented spy agency. Maybe mobilising disaster management, disaster being Pak democracy

— Ashok (@itsme_warcraft) November 4, 2017

Either they are too foolish. Or they are too intelligent.

— ARAVIND S KUMAR (@aravindis4u) November 4, 2017

Idiots Services Intelligence.Ignorance to the level dont know earthquakes r as yet not predictable let alone to the accuracy claimed in lttr

— Imran Ahsan Mirza (@imranahsanmirza) November 3, 2017

Wow ISI has got a technology that no one in the entire world has. Forecasting an earthquake. https://t.co/Z9sCSUznjz

— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) November 3, 2017

RIP Science

— दीपक (@Rautela) November 3, 2017

One user suggested that ISI might have fallen into the trap of fake news.

ISI got stung by Fake News which has already been busted
Dear ISI stop scrolling down Social Media for “Information”https://t.co/bT4NHUruj7

— Zarnish Kabir (@Zarnishkabir) November 3, 2017

Another user even took a dig at ISI for being able to predict an earthquake but ignored the presence of terror camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

New Nostradamus of Pakistan – ISI predicts earthquake , but can’t see Terror camps in POK !

— anirban chakrabarty (@_Secular_Indian) November 4, 2017

One of the users also expressed their shock at being able to predict earthquakes but having failed to determine the whereabouts of former Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.