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Abbottabad Public School
Motto	"Character is Destiny"
Established	1961
Type	Semi Government
Location	Abbottabad, NWFP,, Pakistan
Nickname	APS
Website	www.aps.edu.pk

Abbottabad Public School, also commonly referred to as APS and Railway Public School, is a private, all boys, boarding school for, 7th to 12th grade students, located in Abbottabad, Pakistan. APS is one of the best secondary and higher education schools in the region, both in academics as well as in extra curricular activities. APS follows the philosophy of the British boarding schools where academic rigour is balanced with a disciplined boarding life with activities ranging from intramural sports to debating and cultural events.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Name 1.2 Location 2 Academics 3 Boarding Houses 4 Student Life 4.1 General Facilities 4.2 Common-Rooms 5 Athletics 6 School Code of Honour 7 Famous Alumni

In 1959, Pakistan Railways opened up a school outside Abbottabad on land donated by Sardar Bahadur Khan, brother of Field Marshal Ayub Khan who was then the President of Pakistan. This school was called Railway Public School. After two years, in April 1961, this school was renamed Abbottabad Public School and was no more associated with Pakistan Railways.

In 1986, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the then President, re-named this institution as Abbottabad Public School & College. Later on, the school Board of Governors, in its meeting on July 20, 2002, decided to delete the words “and College” and give the institution its original name Abbottabad Public School. It is still more popularly known as APS and its alumni as Abbottonians .

The main campus is about 10 km outside Abbottabad on the road that eventually becomes Karakoram Highway. It covers an area of about 55 acres. The school is surrounded by deep natural crevices in almost a U-shape. The only non-crevice side faces a high mountain. Karakoram Highway passes between school and the mountain.

Abbottabad Public School is a renowned academic institution in the area. It has attracted many students from all over Pakistan as well as other countries. Historically, APS students have performed excellently in both the tenth grade and twelfth grade Board examinations.

APS has seven main boarding houses in which all boarders reside. Usually, up to a hundred students can live in each of these houses, in different room capacity dormitories. Each of these houses has a House Master, a House Tutor and several student Prefects. The houses are:

• Iqbal House
• Jinnah House
• Liaquat House
• Nishtar House
• Sardar Bahadur House
• Sir Syed House
• Sultan Tipu House

The only day-scholar house is Rehman House, named after Mr M. A. Rehman, the first principal of APS.

A beautiful mosque , two main dinning halls and a shopping complex including cafeteria, grocery store, general store, book store, barber shop, cobbler, washerman pit, and fruit shop are also part of the boarding facilities.

All the Houses have their own recreation rooms, called “common-rooms”, where residents play indoor games during their free time and on holidays even. Every common room is facilitated with Television, DVD, Table Tennis, Carom, Chess, draughts and scrabble.

There is one football field, two hockey fields, one cricket field (combination of two hockey fields), five basket ball courts, one tennis court, one volley ball court and an outdoor swimming pool.

I pledge my word of honour that, I shall do my duty to God, to my country, and to my fellow human beings and shall obey all rules and regulations of this Institution. I shall honour my parents, teachers and elders and be good to those who are younger than me. I shall do the best that I can to help all people who are old, poor, crippled or in distress. Everyday I shall do at least one good deed that will please a fellow human being without distinction of country, class, colour or creed. I shall try to make the College tradition "Discipline and Hardwork" and the College Motto "Character is Destiny" as part and parcel of my life.

• Shaukat Aziz