ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday ruled in favour of private schools in the capital and allowed them to collect summer vacations fee from students. Earlier, a single-member bench of the IHC stopped schools from collecting the fee from students during the summer break but Supreme Court had rejected the order and referred the matter back to IHC. In May this year, IHC had stopped private schools from collecting summer vacations’ fee from the students. While hearing the petition, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had asked Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PIERA) what the authority is doing regarding the issue. To this, PIERA lawyers, Rashid Hanif and Muhammad Faisal Khan stated that they could not do anything regarding stopping schools from collecting the fee for summer vacations as the court had taken away the authority from PIERA.

Source: Pakistan Today August 01, 2018 09:46 UTC