Schools to remain closed across Punjab on Monday due to ‘security situation’ – Pakistan

Schools across Punjab and the Islamabad Capital Territory will remain closed on Monday (tomorrow) due to a “security situation”, a notification from the Punjab School Education Department said on Sunday.

“In view of the prevailing situation in the province, it has been decided that all public and private schools in Punjab will remain closed on 16 December, 2024 (Monday),” the notification, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, said.

It added: “However, all offices will remain open and perform their functions as usual.”

A separate notification issued by Islamabad District Magistrate Irfan Nawaz Memon also ordered that “all public/private schools and colleges shall remain closed on 16th December, 2024 (Monday) within the revenue limits of Islamabad Capital Territory”.

Similarly, Lahore Deputy Commissioner (DC) Syed Musa Raza issued a notification declaring a “holiday in all Public & Private Schools & Colleges in the territorial jurisdiction of District, Lahore” on December 16.

Meanwhile, Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner Dr Hassan Waqar Cheema also declared a “holiday” in all public and private schools in the district, on the orders of the Punjab government. Dr Cheema also told Dawn.com that examinations scheduled on December 16 have also been postponed.

While no reason was given for the closures in Islamabad and Lahore, the Rawalpindi DC told Dawn.com that schools are being closed in the district to observe the tenth anniversary of the Army Public School (APS) attack in Peshawar in 2014.

In the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history, 131 schoolchildren and 10 other people were martyred when heavily armed militants stormed the school building on December 16, 2014.

closure of all schools in Punjab after air pollution levels surged to new highs. Lahore recorded the highest pollution levels globally on November 7. Nearly half of Pakistan’s school-age children — around 26 million — were out of school due to hazardous air pollution.

Swiss air quality monitoring group IQAir classified Lahore’s air as ‘hazardous’, with PM 2.5 concentrations exceeding the World Health Organisation’s recommended limits by over 100 times.

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