Presentation Convent High School, Murree

Presentation Convent High School
Location
Murree
Pakistan
Information
Type Private School
Administration Catholic Board of Education
Affiliations Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.

Presentation Convent High School, Murree, was founded by the Presentation Sisters, and is regulated by the Catholic Board of Education under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.

On September 8, 1895, the first Presentation Convent School in the Punjab was opened by three Irish nuns. Today in Pakistan there are many Presentation Convent School catering to the educational needs of around thirteen thousand children in Urdu as well as English medium schools. Some of them include Presentation Convent Schools located in Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab Distt.), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and in Sindh.

Its most famous alumnus is University of Peshawar Vice-Chancellor Azmat Hayat Khan who completed his early education at the Presentation School.[1]

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