PESHAWAR: A student of Islamia College University allegedly died by suicide after his body was recovered from his locked room at the varsity`s hostel on Wednesday, campus police said.

They said that according to initial investigation, Ziauddin, a resident of Upper Dir and student of the 7th semester of the varsity`s law department, had cut a drawstring into two pieces and used it to commit suicide by strangling himself.

`The postmortem report says there is no torture mark on his body,` Masood, a police official, told Dawn, adding that the student was alone in his room and had locked it from inside.

Meanwhile, a suicide note, which went viral on social media and is purportedly written by the student for his father in Pashto titled `Why I am committing suicide`, read: `Father, I am in a situation which I cannot explain. I am fed up with the world.

`I am not in love with anyone nor do I have any love affair but I don`t want to live anymore. I don`t know why but I cannot live in this society.