February 07, 2008	Thursday	Muharram 28, 1429

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 6: Some government’s primary school teachers and members of the Siyal community on Wednesday blocked the National Highway near Kandiaro for three hours in protest against what they called police’s failure to recover a kidnapped person.

Talking to newsmen, the president of the Primary Teachers Association, Mehrabpur taluka, Irfan Tanwri, and a Siyal community’s representative, Malik Khan Siyal, said that Sajjad Ali Siyal was kidnapped about 22 days ago but the Kandiaro police had not lodged an FIR yet.

Senior police officers held talks with the protesters but remained failed to convince them. However, the protesters later opened the road on the assurance of Mehrabpur taluka nazim Syed Abrar Ali Shah that the kidnapped person would be recovered within three days.

Pakistan People’s Party’s candidates for the NA-212 Syed Zafar Ali Shah and for the PS-21, Aftab Ali Shah, visited the protesters and said the government had failed to maintain law and order.

KILLED: A youth was shot dead over an old enmity on the Court Road in Kandiaro on Wednesday.

Sources said that Mumtaz Ali Chang was returning from a court when Farooq Ahmed Bhangar opened fire on him with a pistol.

Police have arrested Farooq who, according to sources, has confessed that he killed Mumtaz in revenge because Change tribesmen had killed his father some seven months ago.

Mumtaz’s brother, Riaz Chang, is allegedly involved in the murder of Farooq’s father, Ismail Bhangar.