MIRPURKHAS, May 20: Several residents of Ayub Nagar, Bhansinghabad and the Tata Factory held a demonstration outside the taluka municipal administration office to protest against non-supply of water for the last one month.

The protesters, including women, carrying empty jars and pitchers, raised slogans against the TMA, demanding water. They broke the pitchers at the M. A. Jinnah Road and staged a sit-in, causing traffic jam. Taluka municipal officer Mumtaz Magsi met the protesters and assured them that the water supply would soon be restored.

FERTILIZERS SUPPLY DEMANDED: Sindh Abadgar Board vice-president Abdul Ghafoor Mahar and secretary Imtiaz Panhwar have said that fertilizers are being sold in black market, forcing growers to pay higher rates.

In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, they alleged that there was monopoly of some fertilizer dealers in the local market who hoarded the farm supplies for black-marketing.

They said that growers required ammonium phosphate and DAP fertilizers at this juncture which had given the dealers a reason for overcharging the former for the same.

They regretted that initially, the dealers refused to provide the fertilizers but, later, demanded high rates for the agriculture supply. They demanded that higher authorities should take immediate action in this connection.

THEFT: Unidentified thieves took away Rs40,000 cash, gold ornaments and household articles from the house of district council engineer Ghulam Mohammad Leghari in the limits of the district nazim office late on Tuesday night.