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Pakistani diplomat passes off injured Gaza girl's photo as Kashmiri
Last updated on Sep 25, 2017, 09:54 am
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On Saturday, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, embarrassingly tried to pass off a photo of a girl from Gaza as that of one from Kashmir.
Lodhi was responding to Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj's scathing criticism of Pakistan, whom she had called a "pre-eminent export factory for terror."
Lodhi was trying to highlight India's alleged human rights violations in Kashmir.
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What happened?
Photo used to highlight India's "campaign of brutality inside Kashmir"
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While exercising the right to reply at the UN General Assembly, Lodhi had accused India of committing "crimes against humanity" and conducting a "campaign of brutality inside Kashmir."
Lodhi then showed the photo of a badly injured girl, claiming she's a Kashmiri struck by pellets fired by Indian security forces.
The photo was also tweeted by the Pakistani UN mission's official Twitter handle.
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Twitter Post
Pak mission to UN tweets photo of Gaza girl
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In her reply to Indian FM's speech in UNGA, Amb. Lodhi showed a pic of pellet gun injured women frm Kashmir saying this is the face of India pic.twitter.com/StuG3arPoN
— Pakistan Mission UN (@PakistanUN_NY) September 24, 2017 -
Details
Photo was of girl injured in Israeli airstrike in 2014
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It turns out the Pakistani mission didn't do its homework.
The photo in question was that of 17-year-old Rawia Abu Joma'a who was injured in 2014 during Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
The photo was taken by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine. The photo had subsequently been featured by the New York Times and the Guardian, among other publications.
