LARKANA, April 28: A demonstration was held in Kambar town on Monday in protest against Nadra's delay in the issuance of computerized national identity cards. The protesters, belonging to Panhwaro, Soomar Buriro and Bagh Jagir villages, marched in Kambar town and raised slogans against the local Nadra staff.

Later, around 20 villagers observed a hunger strike outside the local citizens club. They alleged that the official-in-charge of the Nadra office was raising unnecessary objections to birth certificates issued by area nazims.

They said that officials were objecting to even matriculation certificates. Travelling all the way from Jagir, a remote mountainous area in Larkana district, was itself difficult, they said, calling upon the Nadra chairman to arrange mobile teams for Jagir belt.

WOMAN DIES: A housewife, Hussna Bhutto, was killed as a gas cylinder exploded in her house in Sarwar colony on Monday. The cylinder, which her son, a wielder, had brought home, burst while she was removing it to some safer place, the police said.