DADU, Sept 4: Hundreds of people blocked the Dadu-Johi Road for five hours on Thursday when the prime minister arrived in the area to inaugurate the Zamzama oil field of the BHP petroleum company.

They were demanding that the BHP should be bound down to employ local people at its oil fields.

The demonstrators, including activists of political parties and NGOs and led by Johi People’s Party Parliamentarians chief Bashir Ahmad Thaheem and poet Ahmad Khan Madhosh, also held a protest demonstration outside the press club in Johi.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Thaheem criticized the administration of the BHP company for not employing local people.

He said the company was appointing people from other provinces and had refused to provide jobs to the people of Dadu district.