United Nations, Sep 24: In a failed attempt to counter India at the UN General Assembly, Pakistan's Representative Maleeha Lodhi tried to pass off a distorted fact. She displayed a disturbing picture of Gaza and labelled it as the "face of Indian democracy".

Lodhi was responding to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's description of Pakistan as a "pre-eminent export factory for terror" at UN General Assembly 2017.

The photo, Lodhi displayed at the UN General Assembly to show Indian "atrocities" in Jammu and Kashmir was of 17-year-old Rawya Abu Jom. In reality, the picture is of 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, where two Israeli airstrikes hit Rawya Abu Jom, family's apartment in Gaza.

Exercising the Right of Reply, Maleeha 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 has been featured in many photo galleries online, including by the New York Times and the Guardian.(IANS)