When Home Minister Rajnath Singh said his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj had exposed Pakistan's "duplicity" on terrorism in her speech at the UN General Assembly, he had no way of knowing Islamabad would provide a textbook example of deceitfulness in less than 24 hours - in truly spectacular fashion.

Earlier today, Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's Representative to the UN, dramatically raised aloft a picture of a woman at the General Assembly. Her face, riddled with wounds, was the face of India, Lodhi said.

It was a resounding lie.

The woman was not a Kashmiri. She was not a victim of pellet fire. She was 17-year-old Rawya abu Jom'a, a Palestinian woman who was injured in air strikes in Gaza, according to a report in the Guardian.