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Schools in Peshawar remained closed following threats
PESHAWAR, Feb 24 (Daily Times): Five private English medium schools providing
co-education remained closed in the city on Friday after law enforcing agencies
advised their management to make security arrangements for themselves. The
institutions are in the grip of rumours that suicide bombers may target private
schools that provide co-education. The five educational institutions – the City
School, Peshawar Grammar School, Frontier Education Foundation, four branches of
the Beacon House School in various parts of the city and a branch of Bloomfield
School in the University Town – were closed by their respective administrations
after receiving instructions from security agencies that terrorists may target
them.
The schools' students said that their teachers had asked them
not to come to school as there was a threat of bomb blast. Ayesha, 12, student
of class eight in the Peshawar Grammar School, said that after their teachers'
instructions, every student was now reluctant to attend the school. However, the
Army Public Schools and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Schools remained open in the
city, with tight security arrangements. "Police have advised the private
schools' management to make security arrangements on the own in the aftermath of
terrorist activities," said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP-Operations)
Iftikhar Khan, adding that nobody had threatened the schools.
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