Professor of Karachi University goes missing

Naimat Khan

KARACHI: A professor of the University of Karachi (UoK) has gone missing for last fifteen days; it was reliably learnt here on Tuesday.

“Professor Dr. Muhammad Ismail Arfi had been picked up paramilitary Rangers at 2:35 on September 15,” his wife Aamna Ismail has told University administration in a letter, copy of which is also available to The Frontier Post.

“I Aamna Ismail wife of Muhammad Ismail, resident of House No R-152, Sector-A Mashriqi Cooperative Society near Gulshan-e-Ma’amar, Karachi inform you that at around 2:35am on night between Thursday, September 14, 2017 and Friday, September 15, 2017 the door bell of our house rang and we were asked to open the door,” reads the letter addressed to Dean Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Karachi.

According to Aamna the official informed that they were Rangers. “I opened the door whereas my husband informed neighbor through phone so when they [neighbors] were coming towards our house, the Rangers sent them back,” she further states.

The Rangers, who had come in six to seven vehicles, took my husband with them, she has claimed.

According to Aamna her husband Dr Muhammad Ismail is highly educated and patriotic Pakistani, who has obtained LLB degree besides having PHD in his subject.

“He is permanent faculty member of Usooluddin department where he had been teaching for the last eight years. He has thousands of students,” reads the letter, which has urged upon the varsity officials to play their role in releasing Dr Ismail.

According to wife of the missing professor, the family is experiencing extreme mental torture whereas his daughter has become lifeless due to trauma.

According to Dr Obaid Ahmed Khan, Chairman, Department of Usooluddin, Dr Ismail Arfi attended his classes on Thursday, September 14, 2017 and was never seen after that day.

This scribe contacted Rangers for its version but spokesman of the paramilitary force didn’t respond after the initial response that he will check authenticity of the claim.