Protest against trader's killing in robbery.

SAHIWAL -- Several commission agents, grain market traders, and businesses blocked Bahawalnagar Road in Arifwala on Wedensday in protest at the robbery that killed a timber market commission agent on Tuesday.

They demanded the two gunman be arrested. Protesters set fire to tyres and shut down traffic for five hours. Two motorcycle riders assassinated Muhammad Amjad outside the bank at the timber market for resisting them. Amjad did not hand up the cash bag to the shooters, who escaped afterwards.

Amjad was sent to the...