Habibia High School ( fa, لیسه عالی حبیبیه) is a school in southwestern

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which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including President

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and musician

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. It was founded by

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in 1903. It is situated in the south of the city in a district known as Carteh Seh. It suffered severe damage during the civil war of the 1990s between the different

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factions who had ousted the communist government of

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in 1992.

Recent development

The

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funded the rebuilding of the school in 2003, it committed $5 million for the restoration project. The restoration was completed in two years and the school was reopened in August 2005, by Afghan

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Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Over 18,000 students are studying in three different shifts. The undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2000 students. In November 2021, a powerful magnetic roadside bomb exploded near the school.

Notable alumni

, former president of Afghanistan *

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, former president of Afghanistan *

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, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan * Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, former Home Minister of Afghanistan * Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, former President of Afghanistan *

, former President of Afghanistan * Dr.

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, former Minister of Information and Culture *

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, former king of Afghanistan * Abdul Rahim Wardak, former Defence Minister of Afghanistan *

, legendary

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musician * Dr. Hafiz Sahar, former President and Chief Editor, Daily Eslah and Kabul University professor of Journalism *

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, prominent Afghan poet, writer, and literary figure *

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, Afghan politician

Notable faculty

* Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara, historian * Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University

References

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Recent development

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

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