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Tirath said the "message is more important than the
image. The photograph is only symbolic. The message for the
girl child is more important. She should be protected."

She later told reporters that "if there was a mistake"
on part of her Ministry or the DAVP which releases government
advertisements, it would be investigated.
Officials said the publicity material for the National
Girl Child Day was released by the WCD Ministry through the
DAVP after the direct approval and clearance from Minister of
State Tirath, whose staff had prepared the text and images for
the advertisement.
The advertisement also showed sports icons Kapil Dev and
Virender Sehwag and sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan along
with the former PAF chief with the heading, "Where would you
be if your mother was not allowed to be born?"
Tirath said the DAVP looks at advertisements "minutely"
before releasing. At the same time, she said no name was
mentioned with the photo of the former PAF chief.
"It was a photo of an officer in uniform and no name was
mentioned," she said indicating that it was issued by mistake.
The mix-up, probably at the Ministry's end, made the IAF
go livid, with senior officers saying that the use of the PAF
officer's picture was a "big embarrassment".
"I do not know why they have used the former PAF chief's
picture. If they had wanted to use the photo of the IAF chief
Air Chief Marshal P V Naik, all they needed to do was ask for
one from the Air Headquarters," a senior IAF officer told PTI.
Ahmed had retired from PAF on March 18, 2009. PTI NAB
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