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Pakistan school runs in graveyard
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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Islamabad:
Believe it or not, a government primary school in Pakistan's
Rawalpindi city is run at a graveyard. And the school shuts
whenever a body is brought for burial.
The school has no toilet and no facility for drinking water, the
News International reported Tuesday. So students go to
neighbourhood houses if and when they feel thirsty.
District education officer Naseem Akhtar said the Government M.G.
Girls Primary School could get no other land where it could be
located.
"We have to give holiday to the students whenever a body is
brought here for funeral prayers," she said.
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