I suggest that the government should announce either a longer winter vacation annually, or change school timings.
ISLAMABAD: Desperate times call for desperate measures. We are facing a brutal winter this year, in the federal capital as well as much of northern Pakistan, and it has been made worse by a gas and electricity crisis. There seems to be no solution to this in the near future. School children are bearing the brunt of the sub-zero temperatures and given that gas is in short supply, there is no heating at home or in schools.
I suggest that the government should announce either a longer winter vacation annually, or change school timings for all private and government schools, so that at least children, who are always more vulnerable in such situations, are better protected.
Fauzia Husain
Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2012.
