While remembering the journalist, Justice Ramana said, "He was a man with a magical eye and was rightly regarded as one of the foremost photojournalists of this era."

The report from the US-based magazine was in a fashion that it declares the Taliban's statement, which regretted the attack on the photojournalist, as a sham.

Reuters has said, "Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan".