BAHAWALPUR, Jan 13: Hundreds of traders and shopkeepers of markets around Old University Campus Chowk on Tuesday demonstrated to protest against a colleague’s murder and the police inaction.

Two armed men shot dead Faiz Rasool Bajwa, a computer dealer, at his shop late Monday night. The next morning, no sooner had the traders heard the news than a large number of them pulled their shutters down and threw traffic out of gear at a congested intersection.

As police officials reached the spot and tried to placate the demonstrators, the latter demanded immediate arrest of Bajwa’s killers and (monetary) compensation for the bereaved family.

LECTURES: Noted educationist Dr Syed Salman Nadvi of the Durban University (South Africa) began a series of lectures on the life of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) on Islamia University Bahawalpur’s Baghdadul Jadid campus on Tuesday.