Habibia High School (Dari: لیسه عالی حبیبیه) is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including former PresidentsAshraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, as well as musician Ahmad Zahir. It was founded by KingHabibullah Khan in 1903 and is considered one of the oldest schools In Afghanistan.[1] It is situated in Karteh Seh, a district in the south of the Afghan capital.
A stamp of Afghanistan from 1921 depicting the school
The school suffered severe damage during the civil war of the 1990s between the different mujahideen factions who had ousted the communist government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992.
The Indian government 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 reopened in August 2005, by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime MinisterDr. Manmohan Singh.[1]
In November 2021, a powerful magnetic roadside bomb exploded near the school.[2][3]
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