Hyderabad, Jan. 10 -- A two-day sit-in by the Hindu Kohli Community that brought traffic on the Thar coal road to a halt in Badin district concluded on Friday after senior police officials assured protesters that action would be taken against the influential landlord accused of murdering a young peasant.

The protest was staged by thousands of men, women and children belonging to the minority Kolhi community, with support from more than a dozen political, nationalist and religious parties. Demonstrators blocked the Thar coal supply route as well as the main road connecting Badin to Hyderabad via Tando Muhammad Khan, pressing authorities to arrest Sarfaraz Nizamani, who is accused of killing 22-year-old peasant Kailash Kolhi earlier this m...