Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan

The Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), Pakistan is one of the largest private networks of educational institutions in Pakistan. Reaching the most remote and rural areas, AKES, Pakistan has been providing quality education in the country for over a hundred years. This includes pre-primary to higher secondary schools. The first Aga Khan School in Pakistan was established in 1905 in Gwadar, Balochistan. Over a century later, AKES, Pakistan now operates 153 schools and five hostels across the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral, Punjab and Sindh. The majority of schools, 148, are in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, and provide quality educational access to more than 50,000 students, of which almost 50 percent are female. AKES, Pakistan also operates four schools in Karachi, three schools in the semi-urban areas of Sindh and one in Hafizabad, Punjab, with a total enrolment of 13,000 students. The schools are very diverse and range from rural schools with less than 100 students, to large urban schools serving over 7,000 students.