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The Times of India
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Vivek Dubey

Pak PM scrambles for damage control after his office edits leaders out of SCO summit photo

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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appeared to go into damage-control mode on Tuesday after his office shared an edited version of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit’s family photograph, cropping out several world leaders while keeping Sharif prominently at the centre of the frame.

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The Pakistan Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) first shared the edited summit photograph at 11:42am IST.

The full image showed the heads of SCO member states and senior officials standing together ahead of a session of the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek.

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