Pakistan, July 10 -- While there is no denying the government's good intentions about reopening educational institutes in September, perhaps the decisions is being rushed just a little considering that the graph of new cases over time isn't exactly flattening at the moment and there's no telling really what might happen in the couple of months between then and now. That is so especially since Eidul Azha will be celebrated in July and Ashura will be observed in August, and failure to exercise the most stringent social distancing protocols on and in the buildup to both occasions could well lead to yet another spike in the number of new cases as well as deaths.

It is also pretty understandable why a lot of people and institutions would want...