27 private schools face closure

Published March 18, 2006

SIALKOT, March 17: The Sialkot Cantonment Board has issued final notices to the owners of as many as 27 private schools and six academies to wind up their campuses set up illegally by April 10.

The board says the campuses in residential areas are illegal.

The Sialkot Private Schools Association has meanwhile expressed grave concern over the notices and threatened to move court to “save the future” of more than 10,000 boys and girls studying there.

DEMO: A large number of male and female students of MA classes at the Government Murray College held a peaceful protest demonstration against Punjab University administration for not giving them five grace marks in the recently-announced MA results.

The students said that dozens of candidates had been failed by just one or two marks.

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