Schools were closed with a heavy heart, this is not a holiday: federal education minister

Shafqat Mahmood asks students to study and revise as much as possible

By Web Desk
December 01, 2020

ISLAMABAD: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood wants students to realise that the closure of schools doesn't mean it is a holiday.

He said the decision to close schools was was done with a heavy heart. “I request all students to use this time not as a holiday but to revise their courses, do homework,” he tweeted Tuesday morning.

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Mahmood said the government had to be close down educational institutes because coronavirus infections were rising very fast. He asked students to continue with their studies “as much as possible”.


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