Houses
The college is subdivided into seven houses.
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Navy blue | Jinnah | 1957 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | |||
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Red | Liaquat | 1958 | Liaquat Ali Khan | |||
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Brown | Ayub | 1961 | Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan | |||
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Yellow | Latif | 1962 | Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai | |||
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Dark green | Iqbal | 1966 | Allama Muhammad Iqbal | |||
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Purple | Qasim | 1967 | Muhammad Bin Qasim | |||
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Light blue | Shahbaz | 1975 (Class 7), 2000 (Full-Fledge), 2010 (Dis-integreted), 2012 (Full-Fledge) | Lal Shahbaz Qalandar |
- The house is currently Champion
- The house is currently Runner-Up
- The house homes the First Champions Trophy
Shahbaz House had been created in the year 1975, but only to board Class 7 cadets, who were taken in a year early. They were boys mostly from villages, who were taken abroad to be prepared for their up-coming tenure at the college. In the year 2000, the decision to recruit Class 7 students halted, and Shahbaz house became a full fledged house.
In the Year 2007, on the Occasion of Cadet College Petaro's Golden Jubilee, General Pervez Musharraf, who was the Chief Guest on the Occasion, announced that a new house will be constructed, which will be named Musharraf House.
For the first time ever since 1957, a House was declared the Champion house for three consecutive years (Ayub House-2007, 2008 and 2009). To honor their achievement, the Commandant/Principal decided to give the Champions Trophy permanently to the House. The trophy had been passed down within Houses for the Last 50 years. This decision was opposed by cadets of M. B. Qasim house, which subsequently replaced Ayub house as Champions in 2010. However The Commandant turned down the request, stating that the old trophy's permanent home was Ayub House.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don’t know what to save.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)