Gunmen killed a senior university professor in a drive-by shooting Wednesday, police said. Saba Dashtiari, 55, was shot dead as he came out of the university in Quetta for a routine evening walk with a student, senior police officer Ghulam Hussain said.
"The gunmen riding on a motorbike sprayed bullets on him and fled. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead," Hussain told AFP, adding that the student was unhurt. Dashtiari was senior professor at the Urdu department of Balochistan University. It was a targeted killing, the police official said.