A video of Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif struggling with his headphones during a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the SCO Summit has gone viral. The incident is a repeat of a similar gaffe from 2022, reigniting social media mockery.
September 3, 2025: People on the internet made fun of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif again after a video of him having trouble using a headset at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin went viral. The occurrence, which took place at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Beijing, was identical to one that happened in 2022. It has sparked a new round of memes and jokes on social media.
In the famous video, Sharif is seen straining to keep his headset on shortly before the two leaders start talking. At one point, Putin illustrates how to wear the headphones right, and he appears like he’s having a fantastic time. Many people have talked about the bad moment, and many on social media have termed it “International Bezzati,” which means “international humiliation.”
This isn’t the first time this has happened. Sharif had a similar incident with his headphones in front of President Putin at the 2022 SCO conference in Uzbekistan. This garnered a lot of media attention and made fun of him online.
At the same 2025 conference, the Pakistani Prime Minister has been famous for the second time. People also hated him for a video that showed him sprinting to shake hands with Putin as Xi Jinping was walking with him. A lot of people have been debating online about Shehbaz Sharif’s public image around the world and the blunders he made in the two events that transpired one after the other.