Pak goofs up at UN: Tries to pass off Gaza teen image as Kashmiri girl

In a bid to malign India for alleged atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir, Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, made an embarrassing faux pas on Saturday when she attempted to pass off a photo of a Gaza girl as that of a Kashmiri.

She accused India of "crimes against humanity" and of carrying out a "campaign of brutality inside Kashmir". To prove her point, she brandished a photo of a badly injured girl - ostensibly from Kashmir.

The photo of a girl her face bearing multiple bruises which Pakistan's Maleeha Lodhi brandished at the United Nations last evening as an example of "Indian brutality" in Kashmir turns out to be of a resident of Palestine.

The photograph was clicked in Gaza in 2014 by award winning photographer Heidi Levine. The girl Rawya Abu Joma, who was then 17 years old had been injured during an Israeli airstrike, the original caption with the photograph said. The photo has been carried by many online photo galleries including New York Times and the Guardian.

However, the photo in question was taken by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine inside the Gaza strip in 2014, and the girl had been injured in an Israeli air strike.

Earlier in the evening, Swaraj had ripped apart Pakistan in a 21-minute speech, in which she had stressed on how the neighbouring country was exporting terror which India was building the nation through institutions and knowledge bank.

OneIndia News (with agency inputs)