Prominent religious scholar Maulana Adil along with his driver were gunned down by unidentified armed men in Karachi on Saturday.

Adil Khan is the son of late Saleemullah Khan, the former president of Wifaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia.

He was on his way when unidentified armed men on motorcycles opened fire on his vehicle in Shah Faisal Colony.

Rescue officials and police rushed to the scene and shifted them to hospital where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.

Taking notice of the incident, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed to apprehend the suspects involved in the assassination of the religious scholar immediately.

He said that the miscreants wanted to create law and order situation in the metropolis. The chief minister vowed to bring the assassinators to justice.

Meanwhile, heavy contingents of police and Rangers arrived at the crime scene and launched investigations into the incident.