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PM directs emergency measures to ensure safe train travel

Islamabad, Pakistan ·

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on reforms in government schools in Islamabad, the federal capital. He directed urgent implementation of reforms covering infrastructure, curriculum and teacher training, and ordered that issues facing the institutions be resolved within a week.

Islamabad is Pakistan's federal capital, and its government schools are overseen by the federal government rather than by a province.

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