Sir — This refers to the editorial, “India leads from front” (September 26). It was amusing to see a desperate Pakistan resorting to a blatant lie to take on India at the United Nations General Assembly. In its zeal to rebuff India’s scathing indictment of Islamabad’s terror policy, it faced widespread embarrassment when Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Maleeha lodhi brandished a girl’s photo, showing multiple pellet injuries on the face, to back her charges of Indian “atrocities” against civilians in Jammu & Kashmir.
It turned out to be a photo of a victim from the Gaza war shown as a Kashmiri girl. According to The Guardian, the photo was taken at Shifa hospital in Gaza. Rawya abu Joma’a was injured in an airstrike on her apartment in which her sister and three cousins were killed. India has never used heavy military strikes against its citizens in Jammu & Kashmir or elsewhere.