Classes at several educational institutions in Kashmirremained suspended on Monday to thwart student protests following the killingof Zakir Musa, the chief of an Al-Qaeda affiliate, in an encounter in Pulwamadistrict last week, officials said.
While many schools conducted normal operations till Class10, all higher secondary schools and degree colleges in Srinagar, Budgam andKupwara districts remained suspended as a precautionary measure, the officialssaid.
Classes were also suspended in colleges and higher secondaryschools of Baramulla town, Sopore and Pattan in Baramulla district, and some inGanderbal district, they said.
The teaching was suspended in degree colleges and fourhigher secondary schools — two in Bandipora and one each in Sumbal and Hajinarea — of Bandipora district, they said.
In Anantnag district, classes in degree colleges and highersecondary schools of Anantnag and Bijbehara towns was suspended on Monday. InKulgam, classes remained suspended in all degree colleges and at highersecondary school Nehama, the officials said.
All schools and colleges remained closed in south Kashmir’sPulwama district, while the classes remained suspended at the IslamicUniversity of Science and Technology (IUST), Awantipora.
Musa, the head of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a groupaffiliated with the Al-Qaeda, was trapped on Thursday after the security forceslaunched a cordon-and-search operation in a village in Tral area. The encounterended on Friday with Musa’s killing.The authorities ordered closure of all schoolsand colleges across Kashmir as a precautionary measure and clamped curfew inparts of the Valley.