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Uncertainty prevailed on Sunday regarding the reopening of educational institutes, despite claims from the government, stating that all public and private schools and colleges will reopen from Monday (today).

Earlier this week, the education ministry had announced that all public and private education institutions would reopen on Monday after a gap of a week, owing to threats of terrorist activities. Several private schools and universities, however, have announced that classes will not resume today.

A student from the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), on the condition of anonymity, shared a text message which she had received from the ZAB Desk Server. According to this message, SZABIST will remain closed on Monday and Tuesday. The message further said that students would be informed via SMS about when the institute will reopen.

Similarly, the Centre for Advanced Studies, the Karachi Grammar School (KGS) and Bayview Academy have also decided to remain closed on Monday. KGS students were told to not come to school on Monday. The teaching staff, however, are supposed to report on duty.

Many other schools located in the Defence Housing Society, Phase-V, have preferred to remain closed, despite government directives, and have informed parents to not send their children to school on Monday.

On the other hand, classes at Beacon House and The City School are expected to commence from Monday, and parents and students have not been notified of any further holiday.

Earlier, students of The City School were told that all branches of the school would remain closed on Monday. The decision, however, was changed on Saturday, The News learnt.

Only the senior sections at Cambridge school systems such as Froebell’s will open on Monday, owing to ongoing examinations. The junior section will remain closed till further notice.

Similar decisions were taken by many other Cambridge system institutes in order to facilitate students who have to appear in ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level exams. The junior sections were kept closed owing to security concerns, a principal of one of the schools told The News. “We are working on how to overcome the issue. There are serious security concerns but we cannot leak any information at this stage,” she said.

Meanwhile, Private Schools’ Management Association Senior Vice Chairman Sharaf Uz Zaman has appealed to the Sindh home secretary to beef up security at government and private schools in populated areas of the city. He also requested authorities concerned to issue arms licences as soon as possible to the management of schools, so that school administrations can ensure the safety of their students.

Source: The News

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