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Primary, middle schools to stay shut until 28th

ISLAMABAD – Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Tuesday announced that classes 1 to 8 will remain closed in the covid hotspots until April 28th. However, he said that classes for grade 9, 10, 11 and 12 will be allowed to resume from April 19 […]

Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools

Sri Lanka’s government says it will ban the wearing of the burqa and close more than 1,000 Islamic schools, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population. Separately, the government on Saturday announced using a controversial anti-terror law to deal with religious “extremism” and gave itself sweeping […]

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