Sukkur, July 18 -- A protest demanding the safe return of abducted children intensified in Pakistan's Sindh province after demonstrators blocked the National Highway at Babarlo in Sukkur, disrupting traffic between Sindh and Punjab and increasing pressure on the provincial government, The Express Tribune reported.

According to The Express Tribune, the blockade was organised by the Priya Kumari Action Committee after protesters said they had waited more than three weeks without significant progress in tracing the missing children.

Babarlo was also the site of a major lawyers' protest in April 2025 against the proposed Indus canal project, The Express Tribune noted.

Speaking at the protest, committee leader Sohni Paras said the sit-in wo...