As the news spread, several media channels falsely accused Iqbal of being a terrorist, following which the police put out a statement refuting the claim. "My brother was a teacher but they saw his beard and skullcap and branded him a terrorist," Mr Ahmed says. Soon, we began getting more calls from people asking us what was going on and why was the media calling Iqbal a terrorist," Mr Ahmed says. One channel claimed that Iqbal was killed in an "Indian strike on a terrorist camp" in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and that he was a terrorist with Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. They [the media] should be ashamed," Mr Ahmed says.