The provincial governments of both the big provinces of Pakistan, Sindh and Punjab have announced winter vacations for schools. Through a notification issued by the Ministry of Education Punjab, the government has announced to start winter vacation for all the school, colleges and other educational institutions from 24th of December. All the educational institutions of Punjab will remain closed till 31st December 2015. All the schools and colleges in Punjab will be open from 1st January 2016, with the beginning of New Year. This notification is applicable on all the government and private educational institutions of Punjab.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Education Sindh has also announced winter vacations for the year 2015-2016. According to the notification issued by the Ministry of Education Sindh, all the education institutions in the province will be closed from 22nd of December, 2015 till 1st of January 2016. 2nd and 3rd January would be Saturday and Sunday, which are weekly off days. It means that all the students of Sindh would have to return back to their educational institutions on 3rd January 2016, on Monday. KPK and Balochistan governments have not announced winter vacations yet.
It is to be noted that KPK government has announced public holiday in the province on 15th and 16th December, because of first APS attack anniversary.