Summary University students held a protest against the incident.
GUJRAT (Web Desk/AFP) - Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Tuesday killed a senior director of a university along with his driver in Pakistan s central Punjab province, officials said.
In an apparent targeted attack, Syed Shabir Hussain Shah, director of student affairs at a university in the eastern city of Gujrat city in Punjab province, was attacked while on his way to the campus.
"Gunmen riding a motorbike sprayed bullets on his vehicle when he was about to reach the university campus in (the) morning. His driver Khadim Hussain was also killed in the attack," Ali Nasir Rizvi, district police chief, told AFP.
"At the moment, we don t know about the numbers of the attackers, but the incident looks like a targeted killing," he said.
University officials said the slain director was very active in the university s affairs.
Another colleague said Shah had previously received threats.
"He had been threatened by unknown people in past," a professor at Gujrat University, said on the condition of anonymity.
