Continuing holiday: Summer vacation extended, again

ISLAMABAD: The government has once again extended summer vacations for the capital’s schools and  colleges till September 3. The schools were initially scheduled to open on August 11 but dates have been extended four times since. Many schools and colleges have been occupied by police and Frontier Constabulary officials brought in from Punjab, K-P and AJK. Recently, 32 schools and colleges were vacated on CADD’s orders but 27 are still occupied by the police and FC officials. Moreover, Quaid-i-Azam University Registrar Shafiqur Rehman said the varsity would remain closed till September 2. While the federal Urdu university will also remain closed till further orders due to vehicles of marchers parked outside the campus and ongoing protests.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2014.