Lodhi and Raphel often met at The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. in the 1990s and worked together for the passage of an act by Senator Hank Brown easing sanctions on Pakistan. The report quoted U.S officials as seeing Lodhi as an "influencer" and saw her a trusted conduit for relaying messages to Pakistan's senior military leadership in Rawalpindi. Relationship with Pakistan Army In February 2016, Pakistan Today reported that Hillary Clinton email's revealed that Lodhi apparently acted as an informal messenger between the Obama Administration and then army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. In one of the emails by Vali Nasr to Clinton, Nasr wrote that "I got a call from Maleeha Lodhi, who is in London. She gave a message from Kayani", The readout of Kayani's message through Maleeha – running into two paragraphs was classified. Controversies Lodhi was accused of religious bigotry after she deleted a tweet congratulating Mahershala Ali for his Best Supporting Actor Oscar win in 2017. Lodhi had initially congratulated Ali on being the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. However, Lodhi deleted the tweet after other Twitter users "pointed out" that Ali is an [Ahmadiyya]- a member of an Sceptic sect declared in Pakistan Assembly due to Prominent fact and interrogation by lawyers and Prominent Lawmakers in Pakistan Assembly,” so they illegally declare theirselves as Muslims. Lodhi, while responding to Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj's speech branding Pakistan an "exporter of terrorism", in the midst of her 'right to reply', showed a photo of a woman whose face was peppered with wounds and said, "This is the face of Indian democracy," when in actuality, the image depicted a Gazan Arab minor who had sustained bodily cephalic injury in a purported acid attack. Awards The Hilal-i-Imtiaz award from Pakistan (2002) An Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Economics (2004) An Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from London's Metropolitan University (2005) See also Sara Suleri Goodyear Syeda Abida Hussain Attiya Inayatullah Zubaida Jalal Khan Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry Jalil Abbas Jilani Foreign Service of Pakistan Jugnu Mohsin Sherry Rehman Fahmida Riaz Parveen Shakir Kamila Shamsie Bapsi Sidhwa List of Pakistani journalists References External links Center for Dialogues: New York University | Islamic World – U.S. – The West – Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan) Emel: Issue 4 March / April 2004 – High Society to High Commission Harvard University: Institute of Politics | Former Fellows