KARACHI: The Federal Government will introduce a Bill in the next session of the Na­­tional Assembly to enforce new curricula and syllabus in the schools, Mr Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, Federal Education Minister, said here. … Talking to newsmen … Mr. Pirzada said that the new syllabus would be introduced in phases up to 12th class by 1979. The agro-technical biased syllabus would be a major breakthrough … and it would produce productive citizens who could be easily absorbed in any vocational field, he said.

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Washington,] US President Gerald Ford spoke … of US military intervention to evacuate Americans from South Vietnam. Mr Ford said in a televised interview that a cease-fire permitting orderly evacuation of Americans and those Vietnamese to whom the [US] felt a “special obligation” looked impossible because things were moving so fast in South Vietnam. … Mr Ford confirmed he has ordered US marines based in Honolulu to progress towards the Pacific. He would give no details about the marines’ mission. They were to strengthen the US positions in the South Pacific was all he would say.

Published in Dawn, April 23rd, 2025