HYDERABAD, June 11: A religious scholar, his driver and a companion went missing on Sunday while going to Multan from Karachi. The car they were travelling in was found abandoned in the Paretabad area here on Tuesday.

According to Rao Ishtiaq, press secretary of the Tehrik Minhajul Quran, Mufti Irshad Hussain Saeedi had left Rehmania Mosque on Tariq Road, Karachi, for Multan at 2am on Sunday in a car along with driver Ramzan and a friend Shoaib.

He said that the cell phones of the three remained switched off after 6.30am. Their car was found abandoned in the Paretabad area with the help of car tracking system.

According to SHO Ahmed Qureshi of Pinyari police station, the area residents said that a man had parked the car early Sunday morning and left while talking over cell phone.

ROBBERY: A student of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology was robbed of Rs11,000 in Latifabad unit-6 on Monday.