PIPS
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PIPS or Pakistan International Public School & College is a private school situated in Abbottabad, a military town in the NWFP province of Pakistan. It was founded in 1983 by Brig (Rtd). Ijaz Akbar, who until then had served as the principal of the boys section at Army Burn Hall School, also in Abbottabad. He would later hire some of the teachers from Army Burn Hall in his new school. Brig (Rtd) Akbar had previously also been a principal/housmaster at Military College Jhelum. The school, like many others in Abbottabad, is divided into separate sections for boys and girls. The school and college showed excellent results from its starting years and dominated the Abbottabad educational board exams. The school and college both provide boarding facilities to students from all over the country aswell as a sizeable number of students from abroad, mainly the UK. The college achieved impressive results in School Certificate/O'Level (known locally as 'Senior Cambridge'), F.Sc/Intermediate and Matriculation exams. The college is now administrated by Brig. (Rtd) Akbar and Brig. (Rtd) Ehsan. Currently, there are over 2000 students studying in the school, about 1000 in college, with a highly qualified faculty of 100 teachers. The boarding house and college is situated on a small hill near the Mandian area of Abbottabad. The college has a few other branches nationwide, notably in the cities of Gujranwala and Gujrat and claims to be one of the largest private boarding schools in Pakistan.