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British Council, Karachi is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales and Scotland .
The patron of the British Overseas School Association is Her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner in Islamabad.The school is managed by a board of 12 governors that includes 4 permanent representatives: the British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, the Chairperson of UKAP, the Director of the British Council, the Principal, and 4 elected parent representatives.
The UK also has a Deputy High Commission in Karachi and a Trade and Investment Office in Lahore. [1] The British High Commission oversees matters pertaining to the bilateral relationship between the UK and Pakistan, and provides consular services to British citizens in Pakistan. [2] [3]
Karachi is now Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre. The city has a formal economy estimated to be worth $190 billion as of 2021, which is the largest in the country. [36] [37] Karachi collects 35% of Pakistan's tax revenue, [38] and generates approximately 25% of Pakistan's entire GDP.
The state of Pakistan was established on 14 August 1947 in the eastern and northwestern regions of British India. In 1972, Pakistan temporarily withdrew from the Commonwealth, and until it rejoined in 1989, the mission in Islamabad became an Embassy, headed by an Ambassador. The high commissioner is based at the British High Commission in ...
The British Council works in more than 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the UK and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational understanding and cooperation; changing people's lives through access to UK education, skills, qualifications, culture and society; and attracting people who matter ...
A Pakistan–Britain Advisory Council was setup in 2002 to look at how the two governments could facilitate trade and commercial connections between the two countries. [18] During a 2023 Conservative Friends of Pakistan event the UK Foreign Secretary explained how his first job in youth was working for a Karachi-born shop keeper in London.
It has one of Pakistan's largest libraries, Bait al Hikmat. Jinnah University for Women is the first women university in Pakistan. Karachi is home of the head offices of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) (established in 1961) and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP).