KARACHI-
Additional Inspector General (IG) Sindh Police Ghulam Qadir Thebo on Wednesday said that police have arrested one of the five suspected persons involved in the murder of Karachi University Dean Dr Shakeel Auj, private media reported.
“Five men were involved in the killing and one of them, Mohammad Mansoor, has been arrested,” the Additional IG claimed during a press conference.
Dean of Islamic Studies Faculty at the University of Karachi, Dr Shakeel Auj was shot dead in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town last September.
The police chief further said that the arrested criminal has not only confessed to the murder but has also conceded to firing on Rangers personnel in 2014.
The suspect has also confessed of killing renowned poet, writer, scholar and the principal of Degree Science College Liaquatabad Professor Syed Sibte Jafar in 2013.
Professor Jafar was returning home from duty on his motorcycle when gunmen ambushed him.
Thebo went on to add that the suspect had also admitted to killing three members of a political party in 1993.
He said the suspect claimed to be affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) but ‘nobody had come forward to own him’.
