Staff at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul received an alarming email January 20 claiming that Muhammad, a 30-year-old scholarship student from Pakistan, is a terrorist and he is about to blow up the university.

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taff at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul received an alarming email January 20 claiming that Muhammad, a 30-year-old scholarship student from Pakistan, is a terrorist and he is about to blow up the university.

“I am reporting u about the Muslim student involve in violent activities like terrorism group “Taliban” he is from Pakistan his name is Muhammad,” reads the email sent by a person identified as Dolly Mam.

“He is suicide bomber and ll ruin ur infra-structure soon…”

Police immediately launched an extensive investigation but concluded February 4 that they could not find any evidence that he is affiliated with terrorist organizations.

“We checked everything and it seems he is just one of many foreigners wrongfully accused by his own people of being a terrorist,” a police officer said.

The officer said a growing number of people in less developed countries falsely report their own people in Korea as terrorists so that authorities promptly take action and deport them.

“They don’t report it to the immigration department because their identity will be exposed,” he said. “They want their own people to be fired or deported so that they can come to Korea to replace them.”

He noted that some undocumented migrant workers report other undocumented workers as terrorists so that they can take the jobs of those falsely accused.

The Pakistan Embassy in Korea expressed strong disappointment in the media including The Korea Times for running the story of the Pakistani student without all the evidence.

“The media did not have the patience to wait for the conclusion of the investigation, made on fabricated charges”

“Unfortunately, the media did not have the patience to wait for the conclusion of the investigation, made on fabricated charges by an anonymous person,” the embassy said in a statement.

A senior officer at Suwon Police Station claims that the anonymous sender was most likely Muhammad’s wife, who appears to be determined to do whatever it would take to bring her husband back to his home country.

This policeman tapped a phone conversation between Mohammad and his wife as a part of the investigation.

“She was swearing at him, warning that she would make gang members rape his sister and mother,” the officer said, noting that Mohammad has a child with her but has clearly made up his mind to divorce her.

The officer said the foul-mouthed wife, who majored in computer science, was aware that her husband was suspected of being a terrorist in Korea even though Mohammad did not mention this to her.

The officer also confirmed that progress has been made in verifying the sender of the controversial email.

“We have been able to trace an IP address to a PC at an educational institution in Pakistan,” the police officer said.

He also noted that Muhammad will always be on a terror watch list in Korea even though it is apparent that he was wrongfully accused of plotting a suicide bombing.

An official at Sungkyunkwan University said Mohammad is experiencing extreme trauma.

His Pakistani friends have shunned him because he drew negative attention toward the Pakistani community in Korea.

“We are destroying his life,” the official said.

He stressed that Mohammad’s case has drawn an excessive amount of media attention simply because he is from a Muslim country and it happened at a time when the media were obsessed with the news of a South Korean teenager suspected of having joined Islamic State.