Pakistan envoy goofs up at U.N., labels Gaza War picture as 'face of Indian democracy'

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.N. Maleeha Lodhi responds to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the U.N. on Saturday. Photo: @PakistanUN_NY  

The photo Ms. Lodhi displayed was of a 17-year-old girl injured in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza during the 2014 war.

In an attempt to take on India at the U.N. General Assembly, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi goofed up while displaying a picture taken from Gaza and labelled it as the “face of Indian democracy.”

Ms. Lodhi was responding to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s description of Pakistan as a “pre-eminent export factory for terror.”

However, the photo Ms. Lodhi displayed at the U.N. to show Indian “atrocities” in Jammu and Kashmir was of 17-year-old Rawya Abu Jom, who was injured when two Israeli airstrikes hit her family’s apartment in Gaza during the 2014 war.

Exercising the Right of Reply, Ms. Lodhi accused India of “crimes against humanity” and of carrying out a “campaign of brutality” in the Kashmir Valley. To prove her point, she held the photo of the girl whose face was riddled with wounds.

The photo had been featured in many photo galleries online, including by the New York Times and the Guardian.

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