St Paul's Urdu High School

St Paul's Urdu High School
Address
Iqbal Shaheed Road Karachi , Sindh Pakistan
Information
Type	Private high school
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	Approximately 1960 (1960)
Administration	Catholic Board of Education
Gender	Co-education
Age	4 to 16
Language	Urdu
Affiliations	Board of Secondary Education, Karachi

St Paul's Urdu High School was a Pakistani Catholic school located on Iqbal Shaheed Road, Karachi, Sindh. 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).

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".

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.

See also

• Catholic Church in Pakistan
• Education in Karachi
• List of schools in Karachi