The government today issued a notification ordering that all public and private schools will remain closed till January 12.
Earlier, the government had called an early winter holidays from December 19 to January 2 for schools in Punjab fearing backlash in the wake of execution of several death row terrorists after a ban on the death penalty was lifted following the Peshawar school massacre in which 150 people, mostly children, were killed.
All schools have been asked to hire trained guards equipped with arms.