“Fake,” Islamabad’s deputy commissioner said in a post on X while sharing the fake notification.

It claimed that all schools, colleges, universities, all private companies, markets, and commercial banks would remain closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The threat alert issued for universities said that the risk of the attack could be high due to the involvement of a female bomber as security measures pay more attention to the scrutiny of males.

Pakistan goes to the polls on February 8 and thousands of auxiliary security forces are set to saturate the nation’s capital and northwestern region abutting Afghanistan.