Cat-astrophe: Pakistan Minister Accidentally Live Streams Press Conference With Cat Filter On

In what seems to be a major blunder, a Pakistan politician’s press conference was streamed live on Facebook with the ‘cat filter’ accidentally turned on.

Khyber Pakhtukhwa's Minister of Information, Shaukat Yousafzai, who was unaware of the cute show that he and his colleagues were putting on for their audiences, continued the press conference with pink ears and cute whiskers appearing on the minister's head.

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

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

Reportedly, the live stream continued with the 'cat face' in place throughout the whole press conference, even after the error was pointed out by users.

The comical press conference left viewers literally laughing out loud, and screenshots from the press conference quickly went viral on social media.

According to a report by AFP, although the video was deleted from the official Facebook page of Pakistanp's Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party minutes after the press conference concluded, many managed to screenshot it, thus making Yousafzai and his colleagues the butt of all jokes for years to come.

Yousafzai later told the news agency that the cat filter was turned on by mistake. He even joked that he wasn’t the only one hit by the filter.

The party also issued a statement assuring that "all necessary actions have been taken to avoid such incidents in the future."