SUKKUR, Feb 2: Some 150 kilometre area, from Kashmor to Rajanpur and from Kashmor to Sui, on the Indus Highway has become unsafe and 80 percent traffic on the route has been decreased.

The law and order situation had worsened in the area due to on-going tussle between the Bugti and Mazari tribes.

A month has passed when both the tribes came on dagger drawn against each other and every day the kidnapping or killing is reported in the area.

Both the clans have started kidnapping members of each other and so far they have made hostage 20 people of each other with them, official sources confirmed on Thursday.

Despite the government efforts no result has been achieved so far and during the on-going tussle, six people of both the clans have been killed in the last 15 days.

The Sindh police officials that a meeting of the police officials of Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan was held at the Dooli check-post of Punjab which reviewed the measures that how the area could be brought under control and the criminals could be checked, to make the traffic safe on the Indus Highway.

The meeting noticed that traffic on this route had decreased considerably and in the nighttime it was almost off, while in the day convoy system was used for its passage.

The area people told Dawn that the link roads of the area from Kashmor to Sui presented a deserted look and the people on the sides of Kashmor, mostly Bugtis and Mazaris, had been largely affected due to the unrest.

They had been confined to their homes and also refraining from going to their farm lands.

The Bugti tribesmen had kidnapped Ghulam Mohammad from Mazari area one month ago due to personal enmity which Mazaris termed as dishonour and they had kidnapped six persons of the Bugti tribe.