ISLAMABAD, April 13: The new academic year in all the schools run by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) began last Monday but the students are going to school without textbooks.

The parents fear that their children will not be able to complete the syllabus, if they are not provided books on time, whereas some others are anxiously waiting for successful candidates list for Class-I admissions, which was scheduled to be displayed on April 12.

“It will be difficult to complete the syllabus after the proposed two-day weekly off likely to be announced by the government in a couple of days,”Nazia, a mother of two children, said.—APP