KARACHI: A professor at the Karachi Medical and Dental College (KMDC) was gunned down in a suspected targeted attack in North Nazimabad on Monday when he was coming out of the campus, the Tamuria police said.

They added that 57-year-old Prof Javed Iqbal Qazi left the KMDC campus in a chauffeur-driven car and when he crossed the parking area of the college two motorcyclists opened fire on him and fled, leaving the doctor and his driver Mohammed Nawaz wounded.The wounded driver took the professor to a private hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Later, the body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Additional police surgeon Dr Abdul Haq said that Dr Qazi sustained five bullet wounds; two in the chest and three in his left arm. The driver sustained gunshot wound in his foot.

Shadman DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that it appeared to be an act of targeted killing, but investigation was under way to determine its exact motive.

He said that Dr Qazi lived in Naval Housing Society in Dalmia and also worked in the Ziauddin Medical Hospital and the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

He was the dean of the pathology department of the KMDC.

The DSP said that the murder was not related to any extortion threat according to a statement of the widow. Dr Qazi even did not carry a mobile phone, he added.