JACOBABAD, July 10: A large number of employees of a gas field held a rally in Kandhkot on Thursday in protest against recruitment of outsiders.

The rally started from Chachar village and terminated at the office of the gas field after marching on different roads of the town, carrying banners and demanding recruitment of locals.

The protesters led by Saeed Ahmed Chachar, Ali Murad Chachar, Rais Mushtaq Ahmed and Noor Hassan, also burnt an effigy of the operation manager of the field.

The leaders accused the management of the field of refusing jobs to locals and appointing non-locals in their place. They demanded that the higher authorities intervene to ensure only locals were appointed in the field.

Meanwhile, activists of Sabzi Mandi Association held a procession in the town in protest against closure of a gate of vegetable market on Thursday.

The protesters started their march from Sabzi Mandi and after passing through different roads reached the Indus Highway where they blocked the Kashmore-Kandhkot road for half an hour.

They were carrying banners and placards and raising slogans against the town administration. The president of the association Abdul Karim said that the market had two gates for people, donkey-carts and other vehicles and PPP activists had closed one gate to make room for constructing a shop.

This had made movement of people and vehicles very difficult as they had to pass through one gate, they said.