ISLAMABAD Due to security concerns, three universities in Islamabad have been closed indefinitely, sources close to the institution administrations said Geo News on Monday.
The event occurred following a late-night search by security forces in the Islamabad outskirts.
They said that orders for the closure were given by the administrations of the Bahria, Air, and National Defense Universities.
Late at night, the university administration notified the students of the extended closure.
According to the reports, the unexpected closure has also had an impact on university students’ final exams.
Police sources indicated that because of the impending elections and the continuing sit-ins by Baloch protesters at the press club, security has already been increased in the federal capital.
Caretaker Information Minister for Balochistan Jan Achakzai chastised Baloch protestors staging a sit-in protest over enforced disappearances in Islamabad the day before at a press conference in Quetta.
Referring to Pakistan’s airstrikes within Iran, he asserted, “Those who were being labelled as missing persons were terrorists [and] killed in Iran.”
Baloch demonstrators were allegedly putting on the sit-in in Islamabad with hidden agendas, according to the provincial communications minister.
“They might interfere with the state of law and order.” It is then impossible to put an end to a terror occurrence. Mask-wearing participants in the sit-in may be terrorists or members of prohibited groups, he continued.
Up to 789 terror incidents and counterterrorism operations resulted in 1,524 violence-related deaths and 1463 injuries in Pakistan in 2023.
