SAHIWAL: The Yousafwala police on Tuesday booked 158 protesters for creating disturbance in the public life and blocking Lahore-Multan highway for three hours near the Yousafwala railway crossing.

According to the first information report (FIR), more than 200 villagers from Chak 77/5-R, Chak 78/5-R and Chak 76/5-R held a protest on Monday and demanded restoration of old railway crossing road that led to Noor Shah and other villages. The protesters, eight of them nominated in the case, were demanding that new entrance from the national highway must be stopped and old railway crossing should be opened.

The FIR said the protesters had put a tree middle of road and blocked the traffic. Later, Deputy Commissioner Zaman Wattoo convinced the villagers to open the highway.

Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2019