{"id":339178,"date":"2023-06-22T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=339178"},"modified":"2023-06-22T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:20:16","slug":"hec-bans-celebration-of-holi-in-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/hec-bans-celebration-of-holi-in-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"HEC bans celebration of Holi in universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>keep a \u2018distance\u2019<br \/>\nKARACHI<br \/>\nThe HEC has directed all the universities to keep a \u2018distance\u2019 from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi on campuses. In a letter dated June 20 addressed to all the higher education institutions, the HEC said: \u201cThe higher education institutions may prudently distance themselves from all such activities obviously incompatible with the country\u2019s identity and societal values, while ensuring that they rigorously engage their students and faculty in academic pursuits, intellectual debates and cognitive learning besides identifying, creating and fostering avenues for extra-curricular activities and rational discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>keep a \u2018distance\u2019 KARACHI The HEC has directed all the universities to keep a \u2018distance\u2019 from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi on campuses. In a letter dated June 20 addressed to all the higher education institutions, the HEC said: \u201cThe higher education institutions may prudently distance themselves from all such activities obviously incompatible with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HEC bans celebration of Holi in universities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/hec-bans-celebration-of-holi-in-universities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HEC bans celebration of Holi in universities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"keep a \u2018distance\u2019 KARACHI The HEC has directed all the universities to keep a \u2018distance\u2019 from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi on campuses. 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