KARACHI: The second Urdu `Tadrees` Conference yesterday urged the Government to introduce the two national languages Bengali and Urdu as compulsory subjects from Class VI to Class VIII in all Secondary schools of Pakistan.

A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted at the concluding session of the conference held yesterday at Karachi University. Dr Syed Mohammad Abdullah, Principal of the Oriental College, Lahore, and Head of the Urdu Department, Punjab University, presided.

The resolution demanded that Urdu be made a compulsory subject from Class VI to Class VIII in East Pakistan schools and likewise Bengali in West Pakistan schools. The conference felt that this would go a long way in integrating the nation.

The resolution was moved by Major Q.H.K.

Bakhtiari, Chairman of the Karachi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, and Mr Abdul Sattar, Director of Technical Education Directorate of West Pakistan, seconded it.

Through another resolution, the conference urged that a Central Coordination Board for the standardisation of Urdu terms be formed. The formation of such a board, the conference felt, would quicken the pace of standardisation of Urdu terms.