Student murders professor over proposed co-ed party

A student stabbed a college professor to death on Wednesday in Bahawalpur, apparently because he felt that a planned party that women were going to be involved with would be un-Islamic, a police official said. Khalid Hameed, an English professor at the Government Sadiq Egerton College in Bahawalpur, was preparing for the farewell party when one of his students attacked him with a dagger, police said.
"Apparently, the accused has no link to any religious group but we are investigating about his past and the reasons behind his mindset," local police official Farhan Hussain said. He added that the motive given by the alleged attacker was Hameed's decision to hold the party.
The student, Khateeb Hussain, was in policy custody and was being charged with murder, police said. The attacker was wrestled to the ground by students present at the party rehearsal but they could not save Hameed, who died of his wounds after being taken to a local hospital, college principal Wali Muhammad told Reuters.