MULTAN, Sept 26: Karachi police and the administration of Aga Khan Health University have been allegedly keeping in dark the family of a medical student belonging to Multan who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the AKHU hostel.

The family says the 'ongoing investigation' into his death are being kept secret. Asad Aftab (20), a third year student at the AKHU, was found dead in the hostel room of one of his class fellows on Sept 16 last. He was the son of Dr Aftab and Multan's renowned gynaecologist Dr Shehla Aftab. His nose was bleeding while white foam was oozing out from his mouth.

Autopsy on Asad's body was conducted at Karachi's Jinnah Hospital on the insistence of his grief-stricken parents reportedly against the will of AKHU administration. Besides, the aggrieved family also lodged a report with the stadium Road police of the port city.

Later on, they brought the body to native Multan and performed the last rites. The family sources said that neither the police nor the AKHU administration was telling them anything that what they had so far done to resolve the mystery.

They said that while the doctors at the Jinnah Hospital were waiting for the chemical examiner's report till Saturday last to finalize their report, the experts at the AKHU had yet to analyze samples they also took to unfold the 'mystery' of Asad's sudden death, especially when he had no history of chronic ailment.