PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced that educational institutions in the province would remain closed for three days to mourn the brutal killing of students in the terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the provincial capital.

All the private schools and universities have also announced the closure of educational institutions across the province to express solidarity with the aggrieved families.

Meanwhile, the Fata Secretariat has issued directives to all the political agents that the educational institutions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas should remain closed for three days to mourn the killing of students of the Army Public School, according to a statement issued by the Fata Secretariat on Tuesday.

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2014