HYDERABAD, Feb 13: The Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party at a meeting held here on Saturday decided to hold an all parties conference on Feb 28 against a proposed bifurcation of the district of Hyderabad.

The APC will be aimed at forming a united platform against the proposed division. The meeting, presided over by Shaukat Abro, appointed Abdul Fatah Gahoti as joint secretary of the STPP, Hyderabad chapter, and Nadeem Soomro as a member of the district working committee.

It formed a district parliamentary board, comprising Mr Abro, Abbas Ali Thebo and Mir Mohammad Pitafi, for the forthcoming local bodies' election. Taluka parliamentary boards were also formed. The meeting asked candidates to submit applications to taluka and district parliamentary boards for party nominations for the polls by March 10.

A committee was also formed to finalize arrangements for a rally on March 4, to be organized by the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement in Karachi against the army operation in Balochistan, criminal assault on a lady doctor in Sui, Kalabagh dam and the greater Thal canal.

PRINCIPAL CRITICIZED: The Sindh Professors and Subject Specialists Association and the Government Secondary Teachers Association, Hyderabad, have condemned the attitude of the principal of the Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Higher Secondary School.

The associations at a joint protest meeting at the school, Pacca Qila, on Saturday demanded suspension of the principal, blaming him for misbehaving with staff members.

It demanded that the Sindh education minister and the secretary for education should take action against the principal for allegedly demanding bribe from teachers, issuing threats to them and misappropriating school funds.

The meeting warned that teachers would launch a protest campaign in the district if action was not taken against the principal. Mohammad Asghar Palari presided over the meeting.

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