SUKKUR, June 8: A shutter-down strike was observed in Kashmor on Tuesday following the registration of cases against the union council nazim, assistant Mukhtiarkar and others. The protest call had been given by the Shehri Action Committee.

Hundreds of area residents, led by Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, Dr Pir Bux Kalwar and Mukhi Rano, staged a sit-in on the Indus Highway near Kashmor. Speaking on the occasion, the leaders demanded withdrawal of what they called false cases registered against the nazim, assistant Mukhtiarkar and others.

KILLED: A man was killed by armed persons of the Ghanghro tribe in the Chuttal Lakhan village, near Deha, Bagarji police station jurisdiction, here on Tuesday morning.

Ali Jan alias Mimbri Lakhan was returning after offering morning prayer when the Ghanghro tribesmen shot him dead. The murder is said to be the result of an old enmity between Lakhan and Ghanghro tribesmen.

Imdad Lakhan, brother of the deceased, lodged an FIR at the Bagarji police station against 10 persons, including Bhai Khan Ghanghro, Ghulam Haider Ghanghro, Bashir Ghanghro, Nawab Ghanghro and Yasin Ghanghro. Mean while, a man, Sunehri Golo, was killed after being run over by a passenger bus at the Zore Daro bus stand near Kashmor on Tuesday evening.

WORKSHOP: A consultant psychiatrist of the Civil Hospital of Sukkur, Dr Kartar Lal, has said that 450 million people in the world are suffering from mental or behavioural disorders.

He was speaking at a teachers' training workshop on mental health, organized by the department of psychiatry of the civil hospital and the Federal Project for Integration of Mental Health into Primary Healthcare.

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