HYDERABAD, May 25: The Labour Party of Pakistan has said that if the WTO regime is implemented, countries like Pakistan will become dumping grounds of foreign goods and local industries will be destroyed.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club at the conclusion of the party's two-day central committee meeting here on Monday, LPP president Shoaib Bhatti, secretary-general Makhdoom Rasheed, provincial president Dost Mohammad Channa and provincial general- secretary Umer Baloch observed that due to enforcement of new the world trade order by the US and implementation of World Bank and IMF policies, millions of people were living below the poverty line.

They said that the military government was working on the World Bank and IMF agenda and national enterprises, including financial institutions, were being disposed of at throwaway prices. The LPP demanded that the federal government should allocate 50 per cent of the coming budget for education, health cover, employment and housing.

BISE EXAMS: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has announced that practicals of HSC part-II Information Technology annual examinations 2004 of all groups (regular candidates) will be held from May 31 at designated centres.