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Army Burn Hall College is a school and college, formerly operating along English public school lines in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with separate sections for boys and girls; and now gradually turning into a cadet-type institution. The girls' section is on the Mall, a main road near the city center while the boys' branch is near Mandian. The school was founded by missionary Fathers in 1948 and since 1977 has been run by the Pakistan Army Education Corps.HistoryThe school was originally established in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1942 by the English Mill Hill Missionary Fathers, who also ran the Mill Hill School in England. In 1948, a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire, a few of the Fathers moved to Abbottabad with a handful of students and set up the school in a small building, at the Abbott Hotel. Since the British Empire was built by men who came from the English public school system, the Fathers replicated the system and promoted sports and extra-curricular activities such as music, debate, dramatics, and art as a means of character building.Later on, additional space was acquired and more buildings were added to accommodate an increasing number of students and the school came under the control of the Diocesan Board of Education, Rawalpindi. In 1956, a school building was constructed a few miles outside the town, on Mansehra Road. The new building complex had sports facilities and a swimming pool. Its purpose was to provide more room for the seniors and it became known as Senior Burn Hall, while the campus in the city center became known as Junior Burn Hall.