Family plans to move SHC as KU’s Dr Riaz Ahmed goes ‘missing’

KARACHI: Associate Professor Dr Riaz Ahmed, who has been working as chairman at the applied chemistry department of Karachi University, went missing on Friday evening.

His family told The News on Saturday, Dr Ahmed had been on campus till 10pm on Friday. At that time, he had informed his wife that he was coming home, but he didn’t. Since then, his mobile phone has remained switched off.

“Some activists have received messages from him in various WhatsApp groups on Saturday morning, but it seems that those messages were not scripted by Dr Riaz; someone else used his cell phone for texting,” a family member said.

The family then contacted a lawyer to file a petition in the Sindh High Court for his safe recovery.