On September 25, Defence Minister of Pakistan Khawaja Asif had delivered a speech at a UNSC session on artificial intelligence. However, photos from this session had spread rampantly on social media platform X as users had pointed to Junejo sitting in the background. They voiced their concern over her support for Israel—sharing her tweets. To distance himself from the onslaught, Asif said, “This woman or whoever sat behind me was and is at the discretion of the Foreign Office,” The foreign office in turn distanced itself from the controversy.
Former human rights minister Shireen Mazari had stated that one could not sit behind a minister in the UNSC or the United Nations General Assembly unless they were identified as an official representative of the government. “So who allowed this to happen and why? Is there a covert policy agenda at work viz rogue entity Israel, Bagram base, Abraham Accords? GoP needs to come clean — who is responsible?” she asked.
