Punjab authorities have also imposed a ban on gatherings as hundreds are arrested while protesting reports of a rape on a college campus.
Student-led protests spread in Pakistan’s most populous province after allegations of rape on a college campus, prompting authorities to order all educational institutes shut.
The interior department in Punjab province also banned gatherings on Friday and Saturday.
An estimated 26 million children and adult learners in the eastern province will be affected by this closure.
Rawalpindi police officer Syed Khalid Mehmood Hamdani told the AFP news agency on Friday that 380 people have been arrested over vandalism and arson during protests in the city yesterday, and further investigations are ongoing.
Protests erupted last week in the provincial capital of Lahore after social media reports spread that a female student was raped in the basement of the Punjab College for Women campus.
Police arrested a security guard who was identified in online posts but said no victim had come forward and that they had not been able to verify the rape allegation.
Since the protests spilled over to several campuses in Lahore and the garrison city of Rawalpindi, police fired tear gas. They charged students who accused the authorities of a cover-up.
