The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, is facing corruption investigations and calls for criminal charges to be placed against him and members of his family. One of the documents used to prove that his daughter, Maryam, is not corrupt, is written in Calibri font, and dated 2006. But the Calibri font was not available for general use in 2006.
Careless.
At least he didn’t use Sans-Sherif.
Thanks for posting that. Pretty interesting. It reminds me of the probably falsified memo passed to Dan Rather, which was supposed to have been written by GW Bush’s National Guard commanders but was probably written in MS Word. Kind of a slapdash forgery.
Anyway, I also found it interesting that appending “gate” onto a word to make a scandal name is not just an American thing. The article says the media in Pakistan are calling this Fontgate. I wonder if Something-gate is widespread outside the US, and how many people in those countries know the etymology of it.
ETA:
Go stand in the corner.
This is why I submit all my documents in Comic Sans.
Can they carbon-date the paper sufficiently accurately?
How does a document in any way prove his daughter isn’t corrupt?
He don’t like that font.
As to my other post, any document could be forged. On another note, she’s very pretty.
Rich men marry pretty girls. Pretty girls marry rich men. You wind up with a class of rich, good-looking people.
She claimed the property registered in her name was held in a trust - so not really hers.
You know, we were always told that Maryam was the smart one.
♫ Rock the Caslon, rock the Caslon…
And Comic Sans is grounds for automatic impeachment.
That’s from that song “Lock the Taskbar”, right? 
Dude she is nearly fifty and a new grandmother.:eek:
Of course, the first time her daddy was PM back in 1990, she eloped with his Aide-de-Camp, who was for some reason, not Court martialed, shot and sent to the Siachen sector, but married her. So she is a rebel.
What I want to know is: are there people who read a document and go, “WTF, that’s Calibri!”
I took a look at it. It looks like any other modern sans serif font. So I open my Word 2003 and look for a couple of sans serif fonts. What the heck sets it apart from Candara or Guatami in a casual read?
Now, and this is important, Word 2003 has Calibri. So, WTF all over again. So much for the 2007 date. My copy of Word 2003 is installed off my original CD they gave us at work for personal use back then. It hasn’t been upgraded or anything. I retired in 2005 so even if IT had added some fonts, that’s still before 2007.
Dennis
The serious Spanish press doesn’t tend to use it when speaking Spanish, but they often mention that this or that scandal someplace else is being called whatevergate. And the joke news will propose -gate names for whatever scandals or troubles we’re currently having. The mayor of Gibraltar decides to dump several huge blocks of concrete into the bay in order to claim more territory? Tochogate (big lump gate), cementogate (concrete gate), ganasdejodergate (I just wanna fuck things up gate). Two starlets wear similar dresses to the same gala, both red and in siren cuts? Ibaderojogate (she wore red gate), or maybe sirenagate (siren gate).
That the -gate part comes from Watergate and that this is the scandal which eventually forced Nixon out gets mentioned in the news now and then, so people who pay attention to the news know that (this applies equally to those who were alive at the time: one of my grandmothers wouldn’t have known Watergate from Johnson & Johnson because she never paid attention to anything more than two feet from her skin). That the word was the name of the hotel, or the details of the original scandal, not so much.
My nearly-fifty ass is taking offense that you apparently think someone nearly fifty can’t be pretty :mad:
Word 2003 will have whatever fonts are installed on your computer. If you use any version of Windows from Vista on, Calibri came with it.
Yes. Specifically, forensic experts instructed to go over a documents to check for its authenticity.
As it is the story is now much beyond just the font. The documents also
- Spell the word “Notary” wrongly as “Notry” on what purports to be an official stamp
- Apparently were executed on a day which was a public holiday.
- Use a stamp which did not exist at the time.
I seriously want to cry when I watch the news these days.
I Have Win XP, SP 2.
Dennis