UN: Pak shows Gaza teen as Kashmiri

United Nations, September 24

In a major goof-up, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi today flashed a picture of an injured Gaza girl with no connection to India while alleging she was a victim of pellet guns in Kashmir.

Exercising her right to reply hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj blasted Pakistan for its support to terrorism, Lodhi, on the floor of the UN General Assembly, held up a photograph of a woman whose face was peppered with alleged pellet gun wounds.

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“This is the face of Indian democracy,” Lodhi claimed.

The picture of 17-year-old Rawya abu Joma’a of Gaza, an alleged victim of an Israeli attack, was actually taken by American photo journalist Heidi Levine in July 2014.

Lodhi, who is quite active on social media, including on Twitter, was silent after it emerged that she flashed a fake picture during her right to reply at the UN General Assembly.

The Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations also did not immediately respond to query on Lodhi’s apparent use of such a picture. — PTI