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unusual facts about St Patrick's High School, Karachi


Oswin Mascarenhas

St Patrick's High School and St. Patrick's College have the distinction of having had Prof. Mascarenhas as the only lay-person as principal of both institutions.


Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam

It is also part of the Aga Khan Health Services international referral system, with links to the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi and the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.

All Pakistan Music Conference

People from all walks of life, from all the big cities, Dhaka, Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar, and from towns and villages all over Pakistan attended the concerts in large numbers.

Amir Adnan

Amir Adnan currently houses its flagship store in Karachi, with complimenting domestic stores in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Gujranwala and Hyderabad .

Aslam Pahalwan

Aslam later defeated Tiger Sucha Singh and Joginder Singh at the National Stadium in Karachi in a challenge match.

Bahá'í Faith in Pakistan

In 1937, John Esslemont's Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era was translated into Urdu and Gujarati in Karachi.

Cadet College Lahore

Intermediate cadets apply direct for the Pre-Commission Cadetship Training in the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul, Pakistan Naval Academy Rahber Karachi, Pakistan Air Force Academy Risalpur, The Army Medical College for Pre-Medical Cadets and the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering College for Pre-Engineering Cadets.

Children Parliament Pakistan

The members are elected from different schools of Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Mithi, Kohlu, Balakot, Karachi and Lahore etc.

Dadasaheb Torne

He caught another young man there, Baburao Pai, and started releasing Hollywood movies in Karachi.

Dorab Patel

Following completing his doctorate, dr. Patel returned to Karachi, West Pakistan where he began practicing law in West Pakistan High Court.

Edward D. Baca

One of six children, Baca attended St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, helping to pay the tuition by working on construction crews during summers.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Fergus Crawford

The local Phoenix Park provided a safer place to kickabout and he was soon spotted there by scouts from Bulfin United, a feeder club for St Patrick's Athletic.

Fighter kite

Kite fighting is common in all over Pakistan, but mainly concentrated in cities of Punjab and Sindh region including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Karachi, Islamabad etc.

Firdous Shamim Naqvi

Naqvi also remains a Director Makro-Habib since 2005, prior to that he served as Director Business Development Makro-Habib Pakistan, Senior Director Commercial Makro-Habib Pakistan Ltd., Chief Executive Baluchistan Concrete and Blocks Ltd., Director Tractebel Power, Karachi (1994–1988), Projects controller RAPCO Roads, Abu Dhabi (1982- 1984) and office Engineer Mergentime Corporation, New Jersey (1979- 1982).

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni

Thani was on his way to the US when the airplane in which he was flying, Pan Am Flight 73, was hijacked in Karachi, Pakistan on September 5, 1986.

Garden West

The population of Jamshed Town is estimated to be nearly one million.Garden West enjoys a number of dine-in facilities like KFC, Cafe Student and much more.The banks in Garden West facilitate the banking facility to the residents much effectively.The famous Ismaili "Jamatkhana" is also situated in this area called Platinum Jamatkhana, which is one of the beautiful Jamatkhana in Karachi.

Gul Ahmed Group

The Ideas flagship store is located in the Clifton area of Karachi, with plans to establish a retail chain throughout Pakistan.

Ian Fyfe

A bowler from his early cricket days at St. Pat's School under the watchful eye of Jacob Harris and as a leading wicket taker for Karachi Goan Association, he was among the top slow left arm spin bowlers of Karachi at that time.

Jacques Le Goff

In his 1984 book The Birth of Purgatory, he argued that the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, dates to the 12th century, the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland.

John Permal

Permal used to sprint from his home in Saddar, Karachi, to his school, Saint Patrick's every morning.

Joseph Cordeiro

The school is located in the Good Shepherd Parish in Korangi Town, Karachi.

Josh: Independence Through Unity

Josh is about Fatima (Aamina Sheikh), a dedicated school teacher, who is living a high cosmopolitan life in Karachi until one day her life shatters when her nanny Nusrat-bhi inexplicably disappears.

Maktaba-tul-madinah

Maktaba-tul-Madinah (Urdu: مکتبةالمدينه) is a bookstore established by the Muhammad Ilyas Qadri in Karachi, Pakistan.

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani grew up in an educated environment, and became interested in Islamic sciences, studying under a number of scholars in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan.

Muhammad Farooq

Muhammad Farooq did his early Nazra education from Karachi by Qari Kal-e-Khan, and he learned Tajweed and Hifz (11 Pare) by Qari Hilal Ahmad Dehlavi, Imam and Khateeb of Tooba Mosque (Masjid e Tooba) Defense Housing Society Karachi.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

No. 31 Squadron RAF

In 1946 the Squadron was disbanded in Java and reformed at PAF Base Masroor, Mauripur Karachi, at that time in British India.

North Korea–Pakistan relations

Pakistan has an Embassy in Pyongyang while North Korea maintains an Embassy in Islamabad, a vast Consulate-General in Karachi, and consulates in other cities of Pakistan.

Orakzai

Due to limited resources and fertile land, many Orakzai have settled in Pakistan's major urban centres such as Hangu, Thall, Parachinar, Tirah, Peshawar, Attock, (Nowshera-Amangarh) Islamabad,Battagram-Allai, Wazirabad, Lahore, Abbottabad and Karachi.

Pakistan Rangers

This company also participated in a recent exercise with U.K. Special Air Service operators and U.S. Army Rangers stationed in Karachi.

Pakistan Steel F.C.

Pakistan Steel F.C. is a Pakistani football club affiliated with Pakistan Steel Mills and is based outside the city of Karachi in the Pakistan Steel Township.

Pakistani tea culture

In Karachi, the strong presence of Muhajir cuisine has allowed the Masala chai version to be very popular while the thick and milky Doodh Pati Chai is more preferred in Punjab.

Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland

Born in Gosforth, Northumberland, he was educated at St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh and at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.

Peter Rono

He attended St. Patrick's High School, Iten where he was trained by Brother Colm O'Connell, an Irish Patrician missionary and headmaster of the school at that time.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

PIA F.C.

Founded in 1958 and based in Karachi, the Pakistan International Airlines affiliated team are the most successful Pakistani football club, winning the national championship a record 9 times.

Prince Henry's High School

Prof John Turner, Vice-Chancellor from 1982-4 of the University of Botswana, and Sarah Fielden Professor of Education from 1985-94 at the University of Manchester (taught from 1951-3)

Qazi Mohammad Obaidullah Alvi

His career as journalist played mostly in Islamabad and Karachi and he delivered lectures in Al Rashid University Karachi, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad and Kabul University Afghanistan.

St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad

: For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School

St Patrick's GFC, Cullyhanna

Ciaran McKeever, Armagh U21 and Senior player, member of 2008, 2010 and 2011 Ireland international rules football teams

St Patrick's Purgatory

Pete McCarthy's visit in 1998 is described in McCarthy's Bar.

St. Anne's High School, Orlem

Gavin Ferreira, former center forward National Hockey Team, Olympian

St. Rose's High School, Guyana

Six nuns and two postulants from the Ursuline convent in Athlone, Ireland traveled to the then-colony of British Guiana in 1847.

St. Xavier's High School, Andheri

Xavier's High School,Andheri is situated in Poonam Nagar, Andheri (East),Mumbai.It is recognized by Government of Maharashtra and affiliated to Maharashtra State Education Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education i.e., S.S.C. and H.S.C.(Science).

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

The hardwork and the generosity of Missouri, Chicago and Detroit provinces, raised Patna mission soon to a vice-province and then in 1962, to an independent province.

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2006

11 April:- Over 50 people, including Sunni (Barelvi) scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2009

27 December:- At least 15 people, including mourners and policemen, were killed and over 100 injured when a suicide bomber ripped through a Muharram procession near an imambargah in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir on Sunday as another explosion near a Muharram procession near Orangi Town in Karachi injured 35 people.

Vultee P-66 Vanguard

Assembled P-66s were deemed unairworthy and abandoned at Karachi resulting in only 12 Vanguards on station at Kunming with the 74th Fighter Squadron of the 23rd Fighter Group, but this unit saw little action.

Wadh

The Highway is 813 km long and stretches from Karachi-Lasbela-Khuzdar-Wadh-Kalat-Mastung-Quetta-Chaman and further onto Iran and Afghanistan.

William Valentine Mayneord

He was educated at Prince Henry's School, Evesham and gained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Birmingham


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