LARKANA Unidentified men forced the cancellation of a spring fair near Larkana on Friday after they objected to the presence of dancing girls.

According to organisers, the `hoodlums belonged to the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam`. However a JUI leader, Abdul Razzak Abid Lakho, disowned the assailants, saying that `we had merely requested the organisers to stop the dance. We have nothing to do with the disruption.`

Sources in Waggan town said a group of JUI workers pulled up at the exhibition ground after Friday prayers and told the organisers to cancel the `vulgar dance` and expel the 12 dancers. `Otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences`. 

The men had brought with them a number of veils in order to shame the authorities. The terrorised dancers left the scene immediately and the organisers had no option but to cancel the programme.