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Rovers remain in the top six - but their play-off hopes took a dent - as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Birmingham City.
Read Khadra came back to haunt his former club, scoring the winner just after the hour, as Rovers returned form the international break with a defeat at St Andrew's.
Khadra's winner saw him shoot through a crowd of bodies, as his effort nestled in the bottom corner in the 62nd minute.
Rovers again failed to find a response from a losing position and struggled for a response to Khadra's goal.
Defender Dom Hyam had their best two chances, unmarked headers from corners in either half, but failed to hit the target, while John Ruddy made a good save to deny Ryan Hedges.
Sorba Thomas dropped to the bench for the first time since joining on loan in January, with Ryan Hedges making his first Championship start since January 21 on the right flank.
Tyrhys Dolan was in on the left flank as Ben Brereton was fit enough only for the bench, with Bradley Dack also back into the matchday squad after a month out injured.
Much of Rovers' good early play came through Joe Rankin-Costello who roamed around the pitch to good effect.
The first effort of the game went the way of Sam Gallagher, though his header from Ryan Hedges' cross lacked any power to trouble John Ruddy.
There was a huge let-off for Rovers at the other end in the 11th minute, with Lukas Jutkiewicz firing the ball across the six-yard box that was turned towards his own goal by Lewis Travis, with the inside of the post stopping him turning into his own goal.
Rovers scrambled clear from that, but couldn't do likewise moments later, with the ball dropping for Tahith Chong who snatched at his shot wide of the target.
The clearest chance of the opening quarter was when Dom Hyam met a Hedges corner unmarked from six yards out, but couldn't guide his header on target.
It had become an open game, with both sides willing to commit bodies forward.
Striker Lukas Jutkiewicz was keen to make his presence felt in the box and went close twice in the space of as many minutes before the half hour.
First was a snap-shot from the right edge of the box that flew narrowly wide of the post, though the award of a corner meant his effort must have got a flick on the way past the upright.
He did then got a shot on target, and a very well hit-one, after controlling a George Hall cross, though Aynsley Pears, who was preferred to Thomas Kaminski in goal, was alert to palm it to safety.
Rovers were showing moments of quality, but not for any sustained period to truly trouble Blues.
They did rack up the attempts though in the 10 minutes leading into the break.
First Hedges teed up Szmodics, whose shot flew over the bar from the edge of the box, before Ruddy was forced into action in the 36th minute.
Hedges ran across the defensive line to collect a Dolan pass, with Ruddy down smartly to keep out a well-hit shot from a tight angle by the Welshman.
Hayden Carter was the unlikely player to line up a shot from distance on his left foot, but it required a save out of Ruddy who again held.
Dolan and Auston Trusty both went into the book before the break for a tussle near the corner in first half stoppage time.
Both sides emerged for the second half unchanged, and with the feeling the game was there to be won.
Ruddy had denied Hedges in the first half, and did so in acrobatic fashion early in the second half. Rovers worked a corner short to the winger who fired an effort towards the top corner that was tipped away by the fingertips of the keeper.
Reda Khadra was up against his former loan club for the fourth time this season, and lined up a free kick from 25 yards that was deflected wide of the target, with Pears doing well to help clear a scramble from the resulting corner.
Travis became the second Rovers player in the book for the foul that led to the free kick.
Rovers were trying to force the issue, with scrambles in the opposition as Rankin-Costello and Carter tried to fight their way through.
It was Blues who hit the front through just after the hour. It came via the right boot of Khadra, his powerful shot after Rovers only half cleared a corner flew through a crowd of bodies and into the corner.
Rovers responded almost immediately with a double change as Thomas and Brereton were introduced in place of Hedges and Dolan.
The goal also proved to Khadra's last action as he was replaced by Juninho Bacuna.
The game became scrappy, Rovers unable to get anything going in an attacking sense as they searched for a way back into the game.
A corner with 12 minutes to play offered them a route back in, with Hyam meeting Thomas' corner inside the six-yard box, but only with a glancing header rather than the firmer connection that was required to turn beyond Ruddy.
Bradley Dack and Callum Brittain were then part of a second Rovers double change with 10 minutes remaining, as Rankin-Costello and Szmodics were replaced.
Dack almost brought Rovers level within two minutes of coming on. Brereton slipped in his fellow sub, with Dack's shot from a tight angle squirming under Ruddy, but across the goal rather than towards it, as Birmingham hacked clear.
Seven additional minutes were signalled, at the start of which Ruddy first spilled a Travis shot, but then atoned for that by getting quickly to his feet to deny Dack's follow-up.
Rovers weren't short of territory in additional time as they camped in the Birmingham half, and while Gallagher glanced wide from a Brittain cross, there was to be no way through.
Birmingham: Ruddy, Colin, Trusty, Long, Roberts, Bielik, Chang (James, 90), Chong (Dean, 90), Hall (Bellingham, 90), Khadra (Bacuna, 68), Jutkiewicz (Hogan, 80)
Subs: Etheridge, Hannibal
Rovers: Pears, Rankin-Costello (Brittain, 80), Carter, Hyam, Pickering, Morton, Travis, Hedges (Thomas, 65), Szmodics (Dack, 80), Dolan (Brereton, 65), Gallagher
Subs: Kaminski, S Wharton, Garrett