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Murree Christian School
Murree Christian School is a small private boarding school founded in 1956, currently open for children in grades 4-12. It is a founding member of the South Asian Inter-Scholastic Association (SAISA) in 1972, and remains a highly regarded educational institution in Pakistan. It is located near the resort town of Murree, Pakistan, at over 7000 ft. elevation in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains in Pakistan.〔(Murree Christian School )〕 The main high school building, made of stone, is a former garrison Church, serving as a Church of Scotland congregation for British soldiers in training in the hill station of Murree, until the church was given to the Anglican Diocese of Lahore during Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, but was not used until the newly formed Murree Christian School started renovating and refurbishing the deconsecrated church. Several other buildings are used as elementary classrooms, staff housing as well as boarding hostels (dorms). Until 2011, high school boys were housed at a building which was formerly Sandes Soldiers Home, for convalescent soldiers of the British Indian Army.
Murree Christian School is one of the better known international boarding schools on the Indian Subcontinent, established to serve the needs of the expatriate communities in and around Pakistan after the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 made it increasingly difficult for children to continue to attend other similar schools in India such as Woodstock School in Mussoorie, and Hebron School in Ootacamund, and Kodaikanal International School in Kodaikanal. Attendance in the early 1960s quickly rose to over 100 pupils and the first graduating class was celebrated in 1964. Through the 1970s and up until 2001, the school boasted a multinational community of over 150 students and over 50 expatriate staff from over 25 countries. The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America resulted in unrest and violence across the region. Subsequently many expatriate workers were forced to evacuate and the school had to close down temporarily. Classes resumed in February of 2002, and by the start of the new academic year in August 2002 enrolment was back at over 150 students.
In the second week of the new academic year, on 5 August 2002, Murree Christian School was attacked by six gunmen from the banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in what is now known as the Murree Christian School attack. Though the attack was unprecedented, foreigners in Pakistan had been targeted earlier in the year, including the February murder of journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi, the head of the South Asia bureau of the Wall Street Journal. In March, the Protestant International Church in the Diplomatic Enclave of Islamabad was attacked, leaving five dead. In June, the bombing of the US Consulate in Karachi resulted in 12 dead. Following the attack on Taxila Christian Hospital on 7 August, by what were believed to be gunmen of the same terrorist group that attacked Murree Christian School, the school board decided to temporarily close the school. Within three weeks, a decision was made to temporarily move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to run independently under the auspices of Chiang Mai International School, a Church of Christ in Thailand school, serving the expatriate and local population in northern Thailand. The following year, MCS students boarded with MCS house parents, but attended Chiang Mai International School. In August 2004, the security situation was assessed to have improved, and under tight security, Murree Christian School reopened at the original site of Gharial, in Murree.
==History==
Murree Christian School was founded in 1956 to educate the children of missionaries in Pakistan〔 and is located near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali which is in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province. The school had been functioning without notoriety until the 5th of August 2002 when gunmen attacked the school killing six people, none of whom were students or expatriates 〔(Six killed in attack on Murree school - Dawn Pakistan ),〕 the school has since returned to normalcy with increased security. Since the mid-1960s, not all students have been from missionary families; some are children of expatriate workers of diplomatic missions, non-governmental organisations, or multinational corporations in Pakistan. Some students are from the small Pakistani Christian community, but because the national curriculum of Pakistan is not taught, Pakistani students have very limited options for tertiary education domestically. Courses are taught in English, with supplementary classes for European and Asian native-language speakers as well as Urdu as a foreign language for students.
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