Pakistan’s national airline said Thursday that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sept. 11 attacks. The illustration, not in video format,

The prime minister of Pakistan has ordered an investigation over an ad by the country’s flag carrier that was criticized as resembling the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister has ordered an official investigation into the country’s national airline over an advertisement widely criticized for evoking the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) published the advertisement last week with an image of a plane flying toward the Eiffel Tower — eerily similar to photographs of the planes heading straight into Manhattan’s Twin Towers in 2001.