Islamabad - The cops instead of vacating educational institutions as per court’s direction by September 23 reoccupied three colleges which were earlier vacated by them partially.
Earlier, the Islamabad High Court ordered the city administration to move the policemen out of the educational institutions by Tuesday for immediate resumption of classes and the institutions were being vacated on emergency basis gradually. About five educational institutions were vacated partially by Monday last and officials were expecting that the remaining policemen would also be moved by Monday night or Tuesday morning. But the policemen took over the institutions, including Islamabad Model College for Girls (IMCG) F-7/2, Islamabad College for Girls, F-6/2, and Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-10/4, again and refused to vacate them.
According to police officials, they did not like the place where they were shifted in suburbs that also lacked washroom, toilet, electricity and other basic facilities. Another four institutions that were not vacated are still in the use of cops.
Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Tuesday intimated by a letter to the Islamabad capital territory (ICT) administration that parents and teachers along with representatives of college associations may protest at one of the occupied colleges and the FDE would not be responsible if any such thing happens. “We have information that parents and students along with association members of college teachers are planning to stage protest, as colleges have been closed for the last four months and crucial time of the students is being wasted,” informed an official. “The situation is getting critical but we can’t do anything as both sides have their genuine issues. Policemen are also our brothers and they need proper accommodation and they don’t want to live where they are being shifted,” explained one of the FDE officials.   After outcry from parents and students and repeated reminders from Islamabad High Court and Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), the security officials vacated about 20 educational institutes but around seven are still taken over by them. Initially, all educational institutes were scheduled to reopen on August 11 after summer vacations and all federal government schools and colleges in the capital city, except the 27 occupied by the police, reopened on September 3 after summer vacations.
Thousands of students could not resume their studies with the start of academic session as over 30,000 security personnel, who had been called in the federal capital to control security situation in the wake of sit-ins by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), were accommodated in educational institutions.