The Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi Professor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan passed away in Karachi early on Saturday. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. The eminent educationist was suffering from cardiovascular disease and went to a private hospital for his dental checkup on Friday where his health deteriorated last night and later breathed his last in the wee hours of the Saturday morning.
Born on July 01, 1952, Dr Khan became the 17th vice chancellor of the public sector university in January 2017. His funeral prayers were offered at Jamia Masjid Ibrahim, KU. Later, he was laid to rest in the KU graveyard.
Those attended funeral were: Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, social activist and renowned singer Shahzad Roy, provincial education minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah, special assistants to the Chief Minister Sindh Waqar Mehdi and Rashid Rabbani, Nabeel Zubari of Pakistan People Party, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, Dr Merajul Huda and Dr Osama Razi of Jamaat-e-Islami, Syed Faisal Subzwari and Syed Amin-ul-Haq of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan), Syed Mustafa Kamal of Pak Sarzameen Party, former KU VC Professor Dr Muhammad Qaiser and ex-KU VC and current vice chancellor of Ziauddin University Professor Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, NED VC Professor Dr Sarosh Lodhi, VC Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Lyari, Professor Dr Akhtar Baloch, VC Sindh University Professor Dr Muhammad Burfat, VC Nazeer Hussain University Professor Dr Muhammad Ahmed Qadri, VC Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Professor Dr Syed Altaf Hussain, VC Iqra University Waseem Qazi, other noted political and social personalities as well as the varsity's Registrar and Controller of Examinations, members Syndicate, Senate, heads of departments, large number of teaching and non-teaching staff and students president of Unikarians International, Professor Ejaz Ahmed Faruqi and others.
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