KARACHI: Karachi University’s Teachers Society has demanded the formation of a judicial commission to probe the murder...
KARACHI: Karachi University’s Teachers Society (KUTS) has demanded the formation of a judicial commission to probe the murder of professor Waheedur Rehman.
Teachers have set a deadline of May 15 for the Sindh government to form the commission.
Officers investigating the murder of journalism professor Dr Waheedur Rehman visited the Karachi University. Earlier, police officers said the lecturer did not have any enemies.
Dr Rehman, who also known by the name Yasir Rizvi, was an assistant professor at the KU’s Mass Communication department and had also worked as a journalist and columnist for many years.
He was gunned down by unknown attackers on motorcycles shortly after the professor left his residence in Federal B Area on Wednesday.
Sketch of the suspected murderer.
A day after the killing of Dr Rehman, police have issued a sketch of the suspected murderer, according to which one of the suspects is believed to be a 30- to 35-year-old man with a dark complexion.
Rehman’s autopsy report said he received five bullets to his upper body, while eight bullet shells were found from the scene of the crime. Police have sent the bullet casings used in the shooting for forensic examination.
Karachi University students and teachers have been protesting since Rehman’s death, demanding that the culprits be immediately caught and brought to justice.
The varsity remained closed for a second day on Thursday to mourn the death of its faculty member.
Links to slain KU dean Dr Shakeel Auj
The killing of Dr Rehman comes months after another KU professor – Shakeel Auj, the dean of Islamic Studies department – was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in September last year.
Speaking to Geo News on Wednesday, Auj's son said Rehman was a close confidante of his father.
“Dr Yasir Rizvi was my father's student and completed his Phd under his supervision. He was my father’s close associates and a confidante. He was very close to our family and remained in touch with us on a daily basis,” said Auj's son Dr Mohammad Hassam.
Hassam told Geo News that Rehman had been assisting in the investigation of his father's murder.
“He was always making efforts in my father’s case, always telling me not to worry and that he would take care of things. He always told me to be cautious, and now look what has happened to him,” said Hassam.
“This appears to be a chain (of killings) and somebody else may be next,” said Shakeel Auj’s son.
The Karachi University has suspended all educational activities and examinations for two days in the wake of the killing of its faculty member.
“Not one year has passed since the killing of Dr Shakeel Auj and the Karachi University has suffered another loss,” said the president of the Karachi University Teachers' Society (KUTS) Prof Jamil Hasan Kazmi.
“Whoever is behind these incidents, they cannot silence the voice of the teachers. We demand that culprits behind the murder of Dr Waheedur Rehman be immediately arrested,” he said.