July 1, 2003	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 30, 1424

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LARKANA, June 30: A large number of growers held a demonstration and blocked the Ratodero-Shahdadkot Road for two hours on Monday to protest against shortage of water.

The protesters, hailing from Arzi Bhutto, Chango, Bakhsho Sayrio, Hashim Lashari and other villages, also burnt tyres and raised slogans against irrigation officials.

They said shortage of water had affected their paddy saplings but, they alleged, irrigation officials were selling water to influential landlords.

The growers ended their protest after irrigation officials arrived at the scene and assured them that regular supply of water to their land would be ensured.

DEMO: The Khaksar Tehrik, Larkana, led by its leader, Tarique Masood, held a protest demonstration outside the press club on Sunday against the construction of the greater Thal canal.

Speaking to the protestors, he termed the construction of the Thal canal “a conspiracy to devastate Sindh”.

He demanded that the project be halted.

MAN KILLED: A man, Munawar Ali Mirbahar, was killed in the Sabzi Mandi, Larkana, on Sunday.

Police said that he was killed by some armed men over an old enmity, and added that seven people had so far been killed as a result of it.

The DCO, it was learnt, had tried to strike a truce between the rival groups.