SANGHAR, May 17: Pakistan Muslim League-F activists took out a protest procession here on Monday against Federal Communications Minister Babar Ghauri. They alleged that the minister had beaten up the polling staff and agents of rival candidate and misused the motorway police and other subordinate staff at a polling station of Kamal Buriro, Tando Adam, in the by-election.

The protesters, carrying placards and banners and raising slogans against the minister, gathered outside the local press club after marching through main thoroughfares of the town.

Speaking on the occasion, Pir Habibullah Jan, Munawar Khaskheli, Wahid Bux Rind, Fateh Mohammad Shaikh and others criticized the minister for creating panic at the polling station. They demanded that the minister should resign and legal action be taken against him.

MAN KILLED: A man, Wakeel Ahmad, was killed by his elder brother, Khalil Ahmad, in Shahmir Panhwar Colony on Monday morning. The accused, a heroin addict, stabbed his brother to death after he refused to give him money. Police took the body to the civil hospital for postmortem. The accused was arrested by police after a case was registered against him.