KARACHI: Another University of Karachi’s teacher has been killed today. According to details, Assistant professor of the University of Karachi has been targeted today. Unidentified attackers fired at a car in FB Area Karachi in which a man was seriously injured and later lost his life. According to police, the person killed in the car has been identified as Assistant Professor of Karachi University, Waheed-ur-Rehman. The police said that the attackers were riding on bike when they gunned the professor down.
DIG Police West Feroz Shah has said that the unidentified attackers targeted the professor in block 16 of FB Area, Karachi. The police added that the professor was targeted in front of Karachi Institute of Heart Disease.
According to police, there were four people who gunned the professor down. The attackers firstly fired from front and then from side. The attackers used 9 mm pistol in the killing. The professor was being shifted to Abbasi Shaheed hospital but he lost his life.
It is pertinent to mention here that the 42-year-old professor, Waheed-ur-Rehman was serving in the department of Mass Communication. Earlier, he had served in Federal Urdu University in Mass Communication Department. He was known with the name “Yasir Rizvi”.