Confectioners drop 'Pak' from sweets

Jaipur, May 23: Shakespeare may not have found much in a name but some in this Rajasthan capital could disagree as they tuck into 'Moti Shree' instead of 'Moti Pak' and 'Mysore Shree' not 'Mysore Pak' -- the sweets the same, the moniker changed in keeping with the anti-Pakistan mood of the times.

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The name change is complete in at least three famous confectionaries, which have dropped 'Pak' from the entire range of their traditional sweets and replaced it with 'Shree' instead.

So, 'Aam Pak' is 'Aam Shree', 'Gond Pak' is 'Gond Shree' and so on. Luxury offerings 'Swarn Bhasm Pak' and 'Chand-di Bhasm Pak' have also been rechristened 'Swarn Shree' and 'Chandi Shree', a move intended as giving expression to the patriotic spirit in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor that struck terror targets in Pakistan.