{"id":82552,"date":"2025-08-07T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82552"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:12:35","slug":"will-punjab-schools-remain-closed-till-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/will-punjab-schools-remain-closed-till-august-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Punjab schools remain closed till August 31?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department has formally refuted a false internet notification that summer holidays would be extended till <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-unveils-summer-vacation-policy-for-medical-teaching-faculty\/\">August 31, 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to extreme weather, Punjab&#8217;s public and private schools will be closed till the end of August, according to a <em>fake<\/em> statement that went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The department, however, labeled the document as &#8220;FAKE&#8221; and warned the public not to trust or circulate unconfirmed information.<\/p>\n<p>The current span of holidays is ending on August 15, and there is uncertainty over the reopening of educational institutes in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal is under consideration to extend the summer holidays in the wake of ongoing harsh weather and high humidity levels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"div-ub-dailypakistan.com.pk_1689057861141\">\u201cWe are closely monitoring the weather situation, and a final decision will be made soon in the best interest of students\u2019 health and safety,&#8221; The Punjab Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Officials stated that professional opinion and weather forecasts will be the basis for any decision about the reopening of schools.<\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming days, the School Education Department will make formal announcements, so parents, teachers, and students are advised to keep an eye out.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, Pakistani people are going to have four consecutive holidays this August as Independence Day and Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) Chehlum are close to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Division in a notification stated that Thursday, August 14, would be a public holiday across the country on the occasion of Independence Day. The Chehlum will be on Friday, August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Though Chehlum has not been included in this year&#8217;s list of official federal holidays, holidays would be declared by provincial governments in big cities, like Karachi and Rawalpindi, were declared last year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Saturday and Sunday, following these two days, people will get the unusual four-day break from August 14 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have also been asked to increase security arrangements for both events to facilitate peaceful processions and celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department has formally refuted a false internet notification that summer holidays would be extended till August 31, 2025. Due to extreme weather, Punjab&#8217;s public and private schools will be closed till the end of August, according to a fake statement that went viral on social media. The department, however, labeled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":69687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,14810],"tags":[30581],"class_list":["post-82552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-lahore","tag-punjab-schools-summer-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82566,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82552\/revisions\/82566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}