In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t in PoK. And he wasn’t killed by India. He died while praying in a mosque in Poonch under Pakistani shelling – and now, his grieving family wants justice not just for his death, but for the media’s character assassination.
