DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Tuesday killed a senior Shia university director along with his driver in an apparent sectarian attack in central Pakistan, officials said.

The attack comes after several deadly clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups near the capital Islamabad and in the northwest since Friday.

Syed Shabir Hussain Shah, director of student affairs at Gujrat University in Punjab province, was killed while on his way to the campus.

‘Gunmen riding a motorbike sprayed bullets on his vehicle when he was about to reach the university in (the) morning. His driver was also killed in the attack,’ district police chief Ali Nasir Rizvi told media, reports The Straits Tiems.

BDST: 1844 HRS, NOV 19, 2013
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