A DECISION to replace English with Urdu, as a compulsory subject from 1952, has been arrived at by the Consultative Committee for framing the new matriculation course of study for the University of Sind... . Sind schools are accordingly expected to make Urdu a compulsory subject in their very first standards from the academic year 1948-49.

The matriculation examinations, however, will provide two alternative Urdu courses; one, a fairly stiff one for those whose mother tongue is Urdu, and another, an elementary one for non-Urdu speaking candidates.

Religious knowledge is recommended by the Committee as a compulsory subject, the followers of different religions being given instructions in schools in their own religions.

Dancing, which formerly found a place in the curriculum, is to be eliminated as a subject from the Fine Arts Group. News agencies [Meanwhile, according a Press note,] Three kidnapped Muslims are believed to have been killed by Jammu State troops who, accompanied by armed civilians, entered Pakistan territory and raided village Tughalpur in the jurisdiction of Lesar Kalan Police Station, according to a report from Sialkot... . A number of Dogra sepoys ... disappeared on the arrival of the border police.