GILGIT, May 13: Police have freed 33 students belonging to a particular sect, who had been detained for instigating agitations over the Islamiyat curriculum in a school in the Gilgit Cantonment Area. Sources said Rangers and police had detained the students and 15 outsiders on Wednesday for agitating over the curriculum issue.

Police have not released the outsiders, who had joined the students’ protest, and have registered an FIR against them.

The students told journalists that the agitation erupted in the Public School and College, Jutiyal, on Tuesday when they were taught the lessons from an Islamiyat textbook which, according to them, had been replaced under a decision made by the federal education minister last month.