St Paul's Urdu High School
St Paul's Urdu High School was a Pakistani Catholic school located on Iqbal Shaheed Road, Karachi, Sindh. The medium of instruction was the Urdu language (i.e., the entire curriculum is taught in Urdu except for the subjects English and Sindhi language). History. Fr Egidio Trindade was the first principal of the school. Nationalization. Fifty-four Christian schools and colleges were nationalized in 1972 by then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After nationalization, academic standards dropped, discipline hardly existed and the school's infrastructure deteriorated. Denationalization. In 1987, a government directive gave provincial governments  the freedom to denationalize schools. The Sindh government denationalized twenty-one educational institutions on January 1, 1990, including Saint Paul's. In 1990, Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro of Karachi appealed to the archdiocese's Catholic community to help rebuild a school recently returned to the church after 17 years of government ownership. The cardinal invited parishes to help raise Saint Paul's Urdu High School "like a phoenix from the ashes" of nationalization. The most difficult part of reconstruction, was "to re-instill Christian values of life and education in the pupils and staff", requiring the cooperation of "the whole diocese