Students attend the morning assembly at a school that reopened after a two-week closure due to tensions in India-Pakistan, Poonch, J&K, 19 May 2025. Photo Credit: PTI
In Pakistan with 23 schools in debris and four children dead in Malt’s shelling in Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts of Poonch-Bitter in the recent Indian Military Confrontation-on Monday (May 19, 2025). However, approximately 16% of students participated in the classes because fear remains a tangible in the district, which recorded a few days of severe night shelling.
All 1,391 schools with approximately 95,000 students, including universities and higher secondary schools, were reopened after a gap of 13 days in Poonch, which recorded more than 14 civil deaths and injuries in recent Pakistan’s shelling. “Participation was on the underside. Many families who migrated have not yet returned to their homes. In distant areas, students would not know about re -opening schools. We have just recorded 10 to 16% of students’ participation on the first day,” Syed IFTikhar Hussin Shah, Poonch, Hindu, said.
At least 14 children were affected by Pakistani shelling and shooting in Poonch after India had attacks inside Pakistan on May 7 due to the terrorist attack of Pahalgam 22 April, leaving 26 civilians of the dead. Four children under the age of 15 died during shelling, including the duo of the sisters, Ayan and Zoya (12). Maryam Khatoon (7) from the Poonch region of Qazi Mohr was one of the youngest who was killed in a military conflict. Students and employees at Krist School, Poonch, watched two minutes of silence that mourn over the tragic deaths of Ayana and Zoya.
Many schools could not be fully functional due to damage caused by shelling. “Two schools were completely destroyed during shelling in Poonch’s mankote then,” said Mr. Shah.
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Disagging the fear between students, headmasters and heads of schools appealed to students not to give up the attention of the legend of social media. Several WhatsApp has been activated to motivate students to reconnect to schools. “We have already started online courses for class 11-12. We will address students to make sure that they are now participating in classes,” added Mr. Shah.
Many students of the Kharmar, Poonch High School, were taken to the video and urged students to re -join the classes. “It’s been about two weeks since we couldn’t participate in the classes. Since then, we haven’t met our classmates. We are referring to our classmates to re -join the classrooms now,” a high school student said in a video report.
However, many parents said they decided to miss their departments to school because they still feel uncertain and saw the current ceasefire between the two countries like “fragile”. “Our children are only safe if there is a permanent agreement on the ceasefire. Every time the loud bang is, we hurry to hide,” said Zhoor Malik, a parent who moved to the winter capital of Jammu after Poonch was raining by Pakistan.
The administration decided to reopen the classes the day after the Indian army clarified that the ceasefire contract did not occur. In addition to Poonch, schools in the border areas of Jammu, Samba, Kathhua, Rajouri and Udhampur also re -opened, which meant a significant step to restore normal in the region along the days of tensions along the Pakistani border, the officials said.
Published – May 19 2025 20:26
