St Paul's Urdu High School

St Paul's Urdu High School was a Pakistani Catholic school located on Iqbal Shaheed Road, Karachi, Sindh.[1] The medium of instruction was the Urdu language (i.e., the entire curriculum is taught in Urdu except for the subjects English and Sindhi language).

St Paul's Urdu High School
Address
Iqbal Shaheed Road

Karachi
,
Sindh

Pakistan
Information
TypePrivate high school
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
EstablishedApproximately 1960 (1960)
AdministrationCatholic Board of Education
GenderCo-education
Age4 to 16
LanguageUrdu
AffiliationsBoard of Secondary Education, Karachi

History

Fr Egidio Trindade was the first principal of the school.

Nationalization

Fifty-four Christian schools and colleges were nationalized in 1972 by then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After nationalization, academic standards dropped, discipline hardly existed and the school's infrastructure deteriorated.

Denationalization

In 1987, a government directive gave provincial governments the freedom to denationalize schools.

The Sindh government denationalized twenty-one educational institutions on January 1, 1990, including Saint Paul's. In 1990, Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro of Karachi appealed to the archdiocese's Catholic community to help rebuild a school recently returned to the church after 17 years of government ownership.

The cardinal invited parishes to help raise Saint Paul's Urdu High School "like a phoenix from the ashes" of nationalization. The most difficult part of reconstruction, was "to re-instill Christian values of life and education in the pupils and staff", requiring the cooperation of "the whole diocese". [2]

Campus

St Paul's Urdu High School shares the campus with St Paul's English High School. In 2004 the school converted to English medium and now bears the name St Paul's English High School - Campus B.[3]

See also

References
  1. Dawn 16 March 2004
  2. . Union of Catholic Asian News. February 13, 1990.
  3. Ali, G. and Ali, M. St. Patrick’s: A journey of 175 years. Archdiocese of Karachi, 2018.


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