HYDERABAD, Feb 14: The Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) here the other day condemned the government decision to appoint army officers as the judges of special courts.

The concluding session of the two-day provincial conference of the party adopted several resolutions, demanding that the special courts should be abolished and the cases should be transferred to ordinary courts.

The conference was of the opinion that the international imperialist financial institutions were responsible for creating hunger and poverty in the world and branded these institutions international terrorists.

The conference accused these financial institutions for creating unemployment and poverty in Pakistan and appealed to the people to join the mainstream politics and pressurize the rulers to give up the slavery of the imperialist organizations.

It condemned the American air strikes against Afghanistan and the presence of the American forces in Pakistan and demanded that the American forces should be expelled from the country.

In another resolution, the conference demanded that the controversial Kalabagh dam project which had been opposed by the provincial assemblies of three federating units and the people at large should be shelved for ever.

The conference criticized the government plan to transfer 17 Dehs of Sindh to Punjab and termed it as conspiracy against Sindh.

It demanded that the federal loans against the three provinces especially Sindh should be written off and the illegal deduction of Wapda bills should be stopped forthwith.

The conference criticised the forced recovery of water charges and other agriculture taxes despite the acute shortage of irrigation water and demanded that total exemption of the taxes should be granted for 50 acres of irrigated and 100 acres of non-irrigated lands.

It condemned the murder of Hindu leader Sudham Chand Chawla and demanded immediate arrest of the murderers.

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