UN says will deal with fake photos after Pakistan diplomat Maleeha Lodhi's faux pas

The picture of 17-year-old Rawya abu Jomaa of Gaza, an alleged victim of an Israeli attack, was taken by award- winning American photo journalist Heidi Levine in 2014.

Heidi Levine in 2014.


UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has said that he would certainly think about suggestions to prevent the platform from being used to depict fake pictures, days after Pakistan portrayed an injured Gaza girl as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.

Exercising her right to reply hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj blasted Pakistan for its support to terrorism, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi, on the floor of the UN General Assembly on Saturday, held up a photograph of a woman whose face was peppered with alleged pellet gun wounds.