August 20, 2007	Monday	Sha’aban 6, 1428

LARKANA, Aug 19: Rockets were fired on the Balach Marri village in the jurisdiction of the Taluka police on Sunday. Five rockets were fired which damaged a power transformer.

Two groups of Marri tribesmen, living in Balach Marri and Mithodero villages near Jhukar-jo-daro, later exchanged fire. Police reached the area but no FIR was registered.

The two groups of Marris had been involved in a bloody dispute over a piece of land in 1995. Sardar Khair Bakhsh Marri had settled the differences between the two groups in 1997 and there had been peace in the area since then.

Meanwhile, residents of Balach Marri took out a procession and protested the recent firing and blocked the Indus Highway by burning tyres.

They demanded action against those who had fired rockets.

PROTEST: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz workers, protesting against unannounced load-shedding in Qambar and adjoining areas, took out a procession in the town on Sunday.

Abdullah Soomro and Zaffar Sindhi led the protesters who chanted anti-Hesco slogans, staged a sit-in at Martyr’s Square and later demonstrated outside the local press club.

They accused Hesco of not only restoring to six to eight hours load-shedding during summer.