Karachi: An assistant professor of the University of Karachi was shot dead today.
According to initial reports, unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle fired four shots at Dr Syed Wahidur Rahman, in Karachi’s Federal B area. The assailants managed to flee the scene soon after the attack. DIG West police Feroze Shah told that the slain professor belongs to the Shia community. Dr Rahman's body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in Karachi.

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has taken notice of the killing and asked for an inquiry report from IG Sindh. Educational activities at the university were suspended after the killing.

Dr Rahman, an assistant professor at KU’s Mass Communication department, was a resident of Latif Square in FB area. KU Assistant Professor Inam Bari said Rahman had been working at the university for the last three years.

Rahman was popularly known as Yasir Rizvi amongst his university students and peers. Dr Rafia Taj, former chairperson of the Mass Communication department said that the slain assistant professor was an active member of the faculty.

She also said his death is a "great loss for the department" and that he was a kind and polite person. In the wake of Dr Rehman's death, university activities have been suspended for two days.

The deceased had completed his master’s and PhD from Federal Urdu University and worked there as a teacher, until he moved to KU.

In September last year Dr Shakil Auj, dean of the Islamic Studies Faculty of the university, was killed in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the city.