Bakhtawar Cadet College For Girls Shaheed Benazirabad

Bakhtawar Cadet College for Girls is the first girls' cadet college in Pakistan. Founded in 2010, it is jointly run by the Government of Sindh and the Pakistan Air Force.[1][2][3]

Bakhtawar Cadet College
Address
Cadet College Road, Aliabad

Shaheed Benazirabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Information
Established11 Oct 2010
FoundersPresident Asif Ali Zardari
School boardBoard of Intermediate and Secondary Education Shaheed Benazirabad
Area100 acres
Colour(s)Blue
DemonymBAKHTAWARIANS
Houses6
Websitehttps://www.bccg.edu.pk/

Background

This Cadet College was established in 2010 and is named after Mai Bakhtawar Lashari Shaheed, a woman murdered during a landlord/tenant confrontation in Sindh, British India, in 1946. Hired agricultural land workers by landlords are called 'haris' in Pakistan. She was killed for demanding her share in wheat production on 22 June 1946. To pay tribute to this noted hari movement leader, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) organized and held an event to mark her 70th death anniversary in 2016.[4]

Speakers at the event said, "Her struggle gave vigour to peasantry and led haris to recognise their rights. She was a symbol of bravery after the partition and the first martyr among women in Sindh".[4] They also added that the agriculture sector of Pakistan was largely dependent on women, but womenfolk did not have adequate land ownership rights.[4]

Bakhtawar Cadet College for Girls is situated on 100 acres of land and it started classes in 2017.[2][5]

Location

Bakhtawar Cadet College for Girls is situated approximately 260km up north from Karachi, about 4km from the outskirts of Shaheed Benazirabad (previously known as Nawabshah District), Sindh, Pakistan.[6]

References
  1. "CM inaugurates country's first female-only cadet college in Nawabshah". Dawn (newspaper). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. Azeem Samar (13 February 2022). "First batch of Pakistan's first girls' cadet college passes out". Gulf News website. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  3. Dougar, Afzal Nadeem (9 April 2016). "نوابشاہ میں بختاور گرلز کیڈٹ کالج تکمیل کے آخری مراحل میں داخل". Daily Jang (in Urdu).
  4. "Hari movement icon Mai Bakhtawar remembered". Dawn (newspaper). 23 June 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  5. Mohammad Ali (10 February 2022). "First Parents Day Held At Bakhtawar Girls Cadet College". UrduPoint website. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  6. Location of Bakhtawar Cadet College for Girls Google Maps website, Retrieved 9 November 2022

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