The Convent of Jesus Mary is a private boarding school located in

Murree Murree () is a mountain resort city in the northernmost region of the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Lying in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range under the western Himalayas, it forms the outskirts of the Islamabad–Rawal ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

, and was founded in 1876 by

Claudine Thévenet Claudine Thévenet, RJM (30 March 1774 – 3 February 1837), religious name ''Marie of Saint Ignatius'', was a French Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the F ...

, who was also a founder of the Religious Order of Jesus Mary to educate young women of every status.

History

The school operated as a girls-only

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...

from its establishment until 2007. On February 15, 2012, the President of Pakistan approved conferment of Sitara Quaid-e-Azam on Sister John Berchmans Conway, a former teacher of the school, for her services towards education and promoting interfaith harmony in Pakistan.

Notable alumni

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan *

Tehmina Durrani Tehmina Durrani (; born 18 February 1953) is a Pakistani author known for her bestselling book My Feudal Lord, an artist, and a women's and children's rights activist. She is the current spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif ...

, Pakistani aristocrat and politician. Author of ''My Feudal Lord''Dawn 5 May 2013
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Syeda Abida Hussain Syeda Abida Hussain–Imam ( b. 1948) is a Pakistani conservative politician, diplomat and socialite on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). Born into a feudal family in Pakistan, she served as the Pakistan Ambassador to th ...

, Former Federal Minister of Pakistan * Rubina Khanum, Political activist and the older sister of PM

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician, philanthropist, and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He was the founder of the political party Pak ...

* Daughters of the Imperial Aga Khan Family

References

External links

OFFICIAL ALUMNI CJM MURREE website

Sonias Alumni pages blog
Catholic elementary and primary schools in Pakistan Schools in Murree Catholic secondary schools in Pakistan Girls' schools in Pakistan 1876 establishments in British India Educational institutions established in 1876 {{Pakistan-school-stub