THE PUNJAB SCHOOL

It was in mid 80’s that Syed lhsan Ullah Waqas and Mr Liaqat Baioch, the founder members of The Makkah Foundation and eminent social workers, realized the need for setting up a superior quality school that could provide quality education to the children of indigent and lower middle class at an affordable expense. A piece of land measuring 66 kanals, in a comparatively underdeveloped area of Southern Lahore, was purchased in 1989, by the Foundation from the Department of Housing & Physical Planning, Govt of the Punjab. The ground breaking ceremony of the Foundation’s first educational venture, the Township Campus, was held on 14th August 1990. This School took a modest start with Preschool, Junior & Girls High School In April 1992 and Boys High School in April 1994 in three blocks of single-storey buildings. During the period of nine years, after Its inception, some more philanthropists and social workers joined hands towards promoting this cause that enabled us to add a separate block of Junior School, another storey of preschool, and two floors each of Boys and Girls Schools in addition to constructing a multipurpose hall and a swimming pool. By 2001, the School had become one of the leading schools of Lahore. Encouraged by this success, the Foundation extended the educational facilities to Kot Khawaja Saeed, another educationally backward area of Northern Lahore. School followed school in quick succession; the third school of the chain, established in Johar Town, went functional in 2007 and the fourth campus in Gujranwala became operational in April 2010. The fifth school of the chain, another a state-of-the-art campus spreading over an area of 52 kanals at went operative in 2013.