Pakistan Police Tell Universities to Tighten Security or Be Shut Down

Even as an eighth person, a master’s-degree student, died on Tuesday of injuries suffered in the suicide-bomb attacks on Islamabad International University last week, the police commissioner of Rawalpindi, a nearby city in Pakistan, told educational institutions to make strict security arrangements or risk being forcibly closed, The News and the Daily Times reported. The official said the government could not afford to make such arrangements itself for the universities, which reopened on Monday after being closed since October 20.