ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday dodge a question on the recent photograph faux pas by its top diplomat in the UN General Assembly, saying the incident cannot be used to rebuff an "indisputable fact" that Indian security forces were using pellet guns in Kashmir.
Pakistan's Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi, on the floor of the UN General Assembly on Saturday, showed a photograph of an injured Gaza girl whose face was interspersed with alleged pellets and represented it as a Kashmiri pellet gun sufferer.
Asked about his reaction to the faux pas, Pakistan's Foreign Office presenter Nafess Zakaria side-stepped the question at the weekly conference here and instead blamed Indian security forces for blinding Kashmiris.
"India cannot refuse around 80 Kashmiris completely blinded purposely by its forces and blinding of over 200 innocent Kashmiris in one eye," he accused.
He also accused India of to play the role of a spoiler in Afghanistan and under the garb of development assistance using the country's soil to carry out rebellious activities inside Pakistan.
"We have solid evidence to this effect, which was shared with the US, the Secretary-General of the UN and also with the Afghan authorities," Zakaria said.
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