DADU, Dec 7: Twelve people, including a councillor, were injured in a clash between area residents and staff of the Mehar TMA on Wednesday on the Qazi Arif road in the Qazi Arif union council of Mehar taluka. The TMA staff wanted to remove encroachments from the road as part of a campaign.

The vendors took a tractor and other machinery of the TMA in their possession when the team removed 21 encroachments. As a result of the removal of encroachments, a clash took place between them and eleven citizens, including Yasin Mahesar, Haji Amir, Basheer, Masood, Ali Gohar, Sarfaraz, Noor Ahmed, Nazeer, Riaz and ADP councillor Liaquat Mahesar, were injured. They were admitted to a hospital.

Later, hundreds of citizens staged a demonstration. Mehar TMO Barkatullah Memon registered an FIR against 14 persons.

NADRA: Residents of Radhan, Faridabad, Mehar and Thariri Mohabbat towns staged a protest demonstration in the Mehar town on Wednesday against officials of the Nadra at the Mehar centre. They said that the Nadra had set a fee of Rs75 for a computerized national identity card but the local staff of Nadra was demanding Rs200 for it.