Habibia High School

Habibia High School
Location

Ayub Khan Mina, District 8, Kabul Afghanistan
Coordinates	34°30′00.00″N 69°08′59.34″E / 34.5000000°N 69.1498167°E / 34.5000000; 69.1498167
Information
Established	1903^[1]
Principal	Sayed Naasir Askarzada^[1]
Teaching staff	250^[1]
Number of students	7579

Habibia High School (Dari: لیسه عالی حبیبیه) is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including former Presidents Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, as well as musician Ahmad Zahir. It was founded by King Habibullah Khan in 1903 and is considered one of the oldest schools In Afghanistan.^[1] It is situated in Karteh Seh, a district in the south of the Afghan capital.

Over 18,000 students are studying in three different shifts. The undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2000 students.

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History

The school suffered severe damage during the civil war of the 1990s between the different mujahideen factions who had ousted the communist government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992.

The Indian government funded the rebuilding of the school in 2003, it committed $5 million for the restoration project. The restoration was completed in two years and the school reopened in August 2005, by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.^[1]

In November 2021, a powerful magnetic roadside bomb exploded near the school.^[2]^[3]

Notable alumni

Ashraf Ghani, former president of Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, former Home Minister of Afghanistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, former President of Afghanistan
Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan
Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, former Minister of Information and Culture
Mohammed Zahir Shah, former king of Afghanistan
Abdul Rahim Wardak, former Defence Minister of Afghanistan
Ahmad Zahir, legendary Afghan musician
Dr. Hafiz Sahar, former President and Chief Editor, Daily Eslah and Kabul University professor of Journalism
Wasef Bakhtari, prominent Afghan poet, writer, and literary figure
Mohammad Ghous Bashiri, Afghan politician

Notable faculty

Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara, historian
Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "A F G H A N N E W S" (PDF). Indian Embassy in Kabul. February 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
^ "Blast rocks Afghan capital Kabul, no casualties confirmed". Xinhua. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
^ Jan, Sediq (30 November 2021). "5 injured in blast near school in Kabul". Afghanistan Times. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

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