MITHI, Feb 8: The residents of the Diplo town observed a shutter down and token hunger strike on Friday to protest against the shabby condition of Diplo-Mithi road, and the faulty telephone system of their town.

All the shops, hotels and cabins remained closed and scores of citizens staged a sit-in out side the office of taluka Nazim, to protest against the authorities concerned.

Talking to the newsmen, Ghulam Muhammad Ahmedani, president traders’ association, said, 40 kilometres long road of Diplo-Mithi was constructed in 1989 on experimental basis from the mixture of bitumen and sand, and its quality was much below than the standard quality roads, hence it developed ditches and cracks at several spots, which caused much inconvenience to the people

He said that if the highway authorities did not repair the road, thousands of the inhabitants of Diplo town and the villages of this tehsil, would be completely cut off from the other parts of the country.