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APMSO & IJT clash cost professor's life
KARACHI, Nov 28, 2007: A professor of Monopoly
Technical College was shot dead by unidentified people during a clash between
two student organisations at Block-12, Gulistan-e-Johar, in the jurisdiction of
Shahrah-e-Faisal Police Station Tuesday.
"The clash between the All
Pakistan Muttahida Student Organization (APMSO) and Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba (IJT)
occurred in the premises of the college and cross-firing continued between both
groups," said DSP Sohail Faiz. Professor Syed Hassan Haider, 28, who was trying
to end the dispute, was shot during the chaos. He was rushed to Darul Sehat
Hospital in Gulistan-e-Johar but doctors pronounced him dead shortly after.
According to the DSP, disturbances between the two groups had been going
on for three or four days. They had reached a compromise and were peacefully
attending their classes on Tuesday when they flared up again.
According
to the professor's brother Taqi, Haider had been a professor in the electronics
department for the last few years. He got married a few months ago and lived in
Jaffer Tayyar Society.
The IJT said that its members were present on
campus when other activists entered the college and started attacking them
firing at them. The IJT claimed that the police arrested at least five members
of the rival group.
For its part, the APMSO said this was a conspiracy
of the IJT and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) to destroy the peace of the city. "There was
a unit of the APMSO presented," said Wasim Aftab, the man in charge of APMSO in
Karachi. "But the APMSO is not involved in such activities." He demanded that
the people responsible for the murder of Professor Haider should be arrested
soon and brought to justice.
The police have registered FIR No. 793/07
against unidentified persons on behalf of the deceased's brother Taqi Haider.
"Nobody was taken into police custody," the DSP added. Daily Times
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