ISLAMABAD: A vice chancellor of a public sector university has received death threats from extortionist, claiming to be the members of Al-Qaeda, police told Dawn on Tuesday.

The Shahzad Town police have registered a case under PPC 506 and 387 in response to a complaint lodged by the university’s chief security officer.

According to the complainant, the vice chancellor received an email in which the sender introduced himself as member of Al-Qaeda and asked the VC they had already received his (VC) head money and asked him to pay $8,000 otherwise he would be killed.

When contacted, Shahzad Town police said they had referred the case to Federal Investigation Agency as cyber crime falls in their domain.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2016