Quaid-e-Azam Public School is an institute in the suburbs catering to children from families with meagre financial resources. It is situated on the link road between the Super Highway and the National highways in the midst of the Sindh government’s proposed Education City, where various other institutes of higher education, healthcare, and research have also acquired land. The school is run by the Sindh Madressah Board (SMB) and launched a College of Medical Sciences this year after being successfully upgraded to teach at higher education level.
In 1985, the SMB unfolded its plan to construct a school for children of the underprivileged sections of the society, keeping intact the guiding principles behind the foundation of Sindh Madressat-ul-Islam (SMI). Patrons of the SMI formally announced their wish to build such a school at SMI’s centennial celebrations, which were attended by the then President Gen Ziaul Haq, Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo, and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Ghous Ali Shah.
“The then Sindh chief minister offered us 200 acres of land free of cost, although we requested him to determine the market value to determine the property first,” said Effendi, great grandson of SMI founder Hassan Ally Effendi. He said that it is up to the patrons and management of the Quaid-e-Azam Public School how to best use the government grant, which is given to meet the financial deficit in running the schools. The school caters to over 600 pupils, and also runs a boarding house for pupils who have to come from outside, such as the remote areas of Balochistan. —AS
