St. Patrick's High School

St.Patrick's High School, is a Catholic missionary school located in Saddar Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest educational institutions in the country.It's A levels Section is said to be one of the best in the country. It has both a girls and boys section.

Notable Alumni:Pervez Musharraf, ex-President of Pakistan

Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan People's Party Co-Chairman Benazir Bhutto's widower

Shaukat Aziz, Former Prime Minister of PakistanLal

Krishna Advani, former Home Minister of India
Air Marshal Azim Daudpota, former Governor of Sindh
Rashid Minhas, Nishan-E-Haider recipient, Pakistan Airforce Shahnawaz
Bhutto, former Chief Minister of Sindh
Khurram Siddiqui, MBA, CPA; Deloitte & Touche LLP, Los Angeles, California

Muhammad Khan Junejo, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Jam Sadiq Ali, former Chief

Minister of the province of Sindh, Pakistan
Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Speaker Sindh Assembly, former Chief Minister Sindh

Humayun Saeed, TV star
Zeeshan Ahmed , Director, ESOFT
Syed Khalid Wazir,Test cricketer Was a member of the 1954 Team to England
Wallis Mathias, Test cricketer Played his first Test against Australia in 1956

Antao D'Souza, Test Cricketer made his debut against West Indies in 1959 at Karachi

Danish Kaneria, Test cricketer

Faisal Iqbal, Test cricketer, debut against Australia in 1998/99 at Karachi

Valerian Cardinal Gracias, former Archbishop of Bombay

Joseph Cardinal Cordeiro, first Cardinal of Pakistan
Anthony Theodore Lobo, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi

Max John Rodrigues, Bishop of Hyderabad

Rumman Ahmad Faruqi, Economist, World Bank & Commonwealth Secretariat.

Manual Misquita, Former Mayor of Karachi

Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, Church of England

Bonaventure Patrick Paul, O.F.M., Former Bishop of Hyderabad

Dr Khadim Hussain Baloch, Cricket Writer, Author of 8 books on Pakistan cricket

The faculty of St. Patrick's High School - 1967

Fr.Raymond Fr.Maschrenhas

Fr. D'souza Mr. Martin

These are a few members of our school we are in the process of getting other teachers pictures and will add them on as we receive them.

St. Patrick's High School - 2009

Many of us have not had the opportunity to visit Karachi and see the numerous changes in our school over the years. This is the place that laid the basic foundation in our lives that eventually catapulted us into our professional lives. The class of 1967 has indeed branched out into the world and have settled as proud citizens in the new homeland while others decided to stay back and fight the good fight. As we approach middle age, there is a tendency to look back and finally accept that a number of people have contributed to some of the successes we have had along the way Even after all these years when the slide ruler was our proud device of the time now with the world wide web and other social networks we have been able to make contact with nearly all of the Class of 1967.

We would not be able to share these pictures were it not for the kind courtesy of Menin Rodrigues who let us use these pictures for our site.

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PRIMARY CANTEENS

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Class member: Rashid Minhas, Nishan-E-Haider recipient, Pakistan Airforce

Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed, Nishan-i-Haider. -{RIP} No. 2 Squadron PAF Base Mauripur (Masroor), Karachi. Born 17 February 1951, Martyred 20th August 1971. The Official Citati

on: Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas (Nishan-e-Haider) On the morning of Friday, 20th August, 1971, Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, a pilot still under training, was in the front seat of a jet trainer, taxing out for take off. An instructor pilot from the same unit forced his way into the rear cockpit, seized control of the aircraft and having taken off, headed the aircraft towards India. With just some 40 miles of Pakistan territory remaining, Minhas had only one course open to him to prevent his aircraft from entering India. Without hesitation, and living up to the highest traditions of the Pakistan Air Force, Rashid Minhas tried to regain control of his aircraft, but finding this to be impossible in the face of the superior skill and experience of his instructor, forced the aircraft to crash at a point 32

miles from the Indian border. In doing so Pilot Officer Minhas deliberately made the supreme sacrifice for the honour of Pakistan and the service to which he belonged. For this act of heroism above and beyond the call of duty, the President of Pakistan awarded the Nishan-i-Haider to Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas.

This whole site for a reunion was the idea of Jamshed Ghandi. Along the way Ken Barrie jumped on board and worked to make this happen. It has been quite amazing that we are in contact with most of our class mates.

The site has added features of the teachers of our time and recent pictures of St. Patrick's School, if you have any pictures that reflect our time there we would like to add them to the site.

Class member : Jamshed Ghandi

California USA