Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan made a big change a day after he returned from America. He has discharged Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations.

Munir Akram will now be the permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, replacing Maliha Lodhi.

Why was Maliha Lodhi removed from the post? So far no official information has been given by Pakistan. Nor has it been told what responsibility has been given to Maliha Lodhi now.

However, there is a lot of speculation in social media.

Many people believe that Maliha failed miserably to make Pakistan's 'Mission Kashmir' a success, hence this decision has been taken.

Some people are referring to Maliha's mistakes after his removal, due to which Pakistan had to face embarrassment in public forums.

Maliha Lodhi had one of these same mistakes: showing a fake picture of Kashmir in the United Nations.

It is September 2017. Maliha Lodhi while waving a picture in front of everyone in the United Nations said: I show you the face of 'Indian barbarism' in Kashmir. The picture she waved was of a young injured girl. The girl's entire face was full of wounds.

Maliha claimed that she was presenting evidence of 'Indian cruelty' in Kashmir and was a picture of a girl injured by a pellet gun.

He also retweeted this photo.

But it soon became known that the picture was not of Kashmir but of Gaza Strip. The girl seen in the picture was not a Kashmiri but a 17-year-old Palestinian girl.

Her injuries were not from pellet guns, but from bomb shots.

The girl, who was injured in an Israeli attack, was photographed by award-winning photo journalist Heidi Lavin in 2014.

Maliha Lodhi was well known in the world for presenting a fake picture of Kashmir to the United Nations.

It was particularly criticized on social media of Pakistan. Pakistani people said that Maliha Lodhi's lapse has brought the country into disrepute.

The Pakistani newspaper The Nation even called it a 'criminal lapse'.

Apart from this, Maliha Lodhi had also come into the limelight due to her omission when she addressed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in one of her tweets as Britain's foreign minister.

Lodhi tweeted, "Prime Minister Imran Khan met UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson this morning." She also shared a picture of the meeting between the two leaders with the tweet.

However, Lodhi also apologized for the mistake, deleting the tweet after about an hour.

After being removed from the post, Maliha Lodhi is once again in the news and discussion.

The senior Pakistani journalist has addressed her as a 'tornado' and tweeted, "Maliha was abusive. She used to insult the elders and the younger ones. She was very ambitious and self-assured. Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken the decision that made her Should have taken. The decision to appoint Munir Akram to the United Nations is very good. The last day of every madman comes.''

Imran Khan had strongly criticized India in the United Nations General Assembly on the Kashmir issue and described the restrictions in Kashmir as 'inhuman'.

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