Abbottabad Public School, or APS or Railway Public School, is a public, all boys, boarding

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 school for 7th to 12th grade students, located in Abbottabad

Abbottabad

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, Pakistan

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. APS follows the philosophy of the British

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 boarding schools where academic rigour is balanced with a disciplined boarding life with activities ranging from intramural sports to debating and cultural events.

History

In 1957, Pakistan Railways opened up a school outside Abbottabad on land donated by Sardar Bahadur Khan, brother of Field Marshal Ayub Khan who became the President of Pakistan. The school was called Railway Public School. After two years it was closed and then after a gap of one year, in April 1961, the school was renamed as Abbottabad Public School.

Name

In 1986, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

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, the then President, re-named the institution as Abbottabad Public School and College. Later on, the school Board of Governors, in its meeting on July 20, 2002, deleted the words “and College” and give the institution its original name Abbottabad Public School. It is popularly known as APS and its alumni as Abbottonians
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The founding, and the longest serving, Principal is Mr. M.A. Rahman.ial behavior.

The main campus is 10 km outside Abbottabad on the road (Mansehra Road) that eventually becomes Karakoram Highway

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. It covers an area of about 55 acres (222,577.3 m²). The school is surrounded by deep natural crevices in almost a U-shape. The only non-crevice side faces a high mountain. The Karakoram Highway passes between school and the mountain.

Boarding houses

APS has seven main boarding houses in which all boarders reside. Up to a hundred students can live in each of these houses, in different room capacity dormitories. Each of these houses has a House Master, a House Tutor and several student Prefects. The houses are:

• Iqbal
• Jinnah
• Liaquat
• Sir Syed
• Nishtar
• Rehman
• Sardar Bahadur
• Sultan Tipu

The day-scholar house is Rehman House, named after Mr M. A. Rehman, the first principal of APS.

Facilities

Facilities include a mosque, one main dining hall and a cafeteria, grocery store, general store, book store, barber shop, cobbler, washerman pit, and fruit shop.

Common Rooms

All the houses have a recreation rooms, called a “common-room”, with television, DVD, table tennis, carom, chess, draughts and Scrabble.

Sports

There is one football field, two hockey fields, one cricket field, four basketball courts, one tennis court, one volley ball court and an outdoor swimming pool. Table tennis, chess, Carom board, etc. are included in indoor games.

Events like Gymnastics, Athletics Olympiad, etc. are held annually. Inter-House Sports and Inter-College Sports fixture, etc. are also held against Cadet College Hasan Abdal

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, Cadet College Kohat

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, Lawrence College Ghora Gali, Rashtriya Indian Military College, Uttaranchal (India), etc.

Notable alumni

• Shaukat Aziz
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   - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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• Ahmad Mukhtar - Defence Minister of Pakistan
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• Ahmad Saeed - CEO Servis Industries
• Dr. Arbab Alamgir Khan
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   - Federal Minister of Communications
• Omar Asghar Khan
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  - former Federal Minister, founder of Sungi, PILER and SEBCON and President of Qaumi Jamhoori Party.
• Ali Asghar Khan - architect and Executive Director of Omar Asghar Khan Foundation
• Naeem Khan
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   - former Chief Secretary, Balochistan
• Maj Gen Jamil ur Rehman Afridi (Retd)ex Surveyor General
• Maj Gen Ameer Faisal Alvi - former GOC Special Service Group (SSG)
• Mr Shehzad Arbab Khan Chief Secy AJK.