KARACHI, Jan 1: Residents of PIB Colony's Nafeesabad staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday to voice their anger over continuous supply of contaminated water to their locality for the past three months.

The protesters, mostly women, who staged a sit-in on a main road, near Lal Masjid, raised slogans against the KWSB officials and nazims of UC concerned and Gulshan Town, and said they were not taking measures for rectifying the fault responsible for contaminated water.

As the protesters had occupied a major portion of a main Road which runs between Central Jail and Tin Hatti, the flow of traffic remained disrupted for about three hours not only on this road but on its adjoining roads, including Martin Road, Jamshed Road and Jehangir Road.

A heavy posse of police and rangers reached the scene to ward off any law and order situation. Accusing the KWSB officials of supplying contaminated water to about 500 houses of the locality for the last three months, a woman deplored that the officials concerned seem least interested in resolving their lingering issue.

Suspecting that sewage might be seeping into the pipeline, they said that the contaminated water had already caused intestinal diseases.