PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Higher Education Department (HED) Friday notified that as per instructions of the National Command Operation Center physical classes at all public and private universities, colleges and attached institutions have been closed till further orders.

It said all the institutions of higher education in districts Peshawar, Swabi, Malakand, Swat, Haripur, Abbottabad, Mansehra and Dera Ismail Khan have been instructed to arrange online classes for students. It added the districts wherein educational institutions have not been closed because of COVID situation shall continue to hold all classes as per standard operating procedures already notified for the purpose.