India counters Pakistan's fake pitch with 'true picture' in UN
September 25, 2017 23:30
India on Monday presented to the UN General Assembly a photograph of Lt Umar Fayyaz, a young army officer from Jammu and Kashmir who was kidnapped in May and brutally tortured and killed by Pakistan-backed terrorists to counter Islamabads accusations on the Kashmir issue.
This is a true picture, said Paulomi Tripathi, a young Indian diplomat, as she held up a picture of Fayyaz during a right-of-reply response to Pakistani envoy Maleeha Lodhi displaying a photograph of an injured Palestinian girl on Saturday and claiming it was a pellet gun victim from Kashmir.
It portrays a harsh and tragic reality, Tripathi, the youngest diplomat in the India mission to the UN, said about Fayyaz. A picture of terrorism emanating from across our borders that the people of India, especially in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, have to struggle with every day.
Tripathi added, This is the reality which the permanent representative of Pakistan sought to obfuscate.
The photo presented by Tripathi was apparently taken at the funeral of Fayyaz, whose killing had triggered outrage across India.
She said Lodhi had misled the General Assembly by displaying the photo of Rawya abu Joma, a girl from Palestine, that was taken by an American photographer in July 2014. A fake picture, she said, was used to spread falsehoods about India and to push a completely false narrative.
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