ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT-2024

FALCON REMOTE AREAS DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Introduction

1. The activities of Falcon Remote Areas Development Trust continued to ensure consolidation of the already started flagship project of CSK Falcons High School, Naltar and collecting funding/donations for running the school successfully and construct new infrastructure when required.

CSK Falcons High School, Naltar

2. The school at Naltar, Gilgit, being the flagship project of the Trust was functioning smoothly in all curricular and co-curricular activities. The classes range from Play Group to 10th. Students to teacher ratio was fairly satisfactory and the school strength increased to about 350. All children appearing in Matriculation exams for the last three years passed.

Additional Facilities at Naltar School

3. In order to cater to the continuing increase in enrolments, funds were arranged through donors to plan the second expansion in the existing infrastructure at school premises. Some donors helped with construction materials. Tijaarat Developers, a company of our founder trustee; Mr Adnan Ghias, helped with construction drawings beside providing 4000 sq ft of high-quality marble and getting the new building painted.

4. The new Academic Block adjacent to the original one was planned as a 2-strorey building with 6 classrooms, Principal’s Office, PA’s Office and a conference room. The construction works were initiated in August 2024 to be completed by middle of 2025. The execution was based on arranging the materials from various donors and using local skilled labour for construction. The building was ready for occupation by June 2025. Since the funds were not available for False Ceiling installation, the same was pended until the availability of funds.

5. In order to provide a decent and hygienic place for the students to get their edibles, a canteen was also constructed to afford hygienic edibles at controlled prices. 

Support by PAF 

6. Pakistan Air Force was providing Rs 1.5 million to the Trust for using at CSK Falcons High School, Naltar. The CAS PAF was kind enough to increase the support to Rs 3.0 million for the subject School from 2024 onwards.

7. In addition to the increase in grant for CSK Falcons High School, Air Headquarters, Pakistan Air Force also provided fifteen used computers to the school to facilitate academic activities as well helping the under privileged children to learn to use this technology.

ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT – 2025

FALCON REMOTE AREAS DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Introduction

1. The activities of Falcon Remote Areas Development Trust were directed to ensure consolidation of the already started flagship project of CSK Falcons High School, Naltar by adding on the requisite facilities Chairman visited the school and Post Visit Report was circulated amongst the BoT members. School strength that was around 350 has already exceeded 400 after new admissions, that speaks volumes about the standing of the school amongst the local population. A visit was made to Tehsil Fateh Jang on the invitation of Directorate of education for provision of some deficient infrastructure for the Girls schools.

2. This year again the Trust continued to utilize the services of its Trustees, Members of General Body and other volunteers to carry out various tasks in the realm of Programmes /Projects Management, General Administration, Financial management and Academic Oversight in the Naltar School. 

Certification by Pakistan Centre of Philanthropy (PCP)

3. The application for certification by PCP was submitted in March 25 along with necessary documents. The PCP team visited the Office premises, met with Chairman, two Trustees and Director Finance. The activity spanned over two days and a comprehensive interaction took place. On completion of all the requirements, the PCP certified the Trust with a very reasonable overall aggregate score of 87%. The certification will have to be renewed after three years ie by May/June 2027.

4. PCP, during its interaction with members, also appreciated the fact that the Trust was not spending anything on administrative functions and was incurring the entire expenditure on programmes. 

Tax Exempt Status By FBR

5. Consequent to the certification by PCP on 30 June 2025, the Trust had applied for Tax Exemption to the FBR. The FBR has accorded the Tax-exempt status to the Trust from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Auditors Asad Ijaz & Co, Chartered Accountants had compiled the procedural requirements and followed up the proceedings of the case. 

Infrastructural Development at CSK Falcons High School School

6. The standard of various dimensions of school functioning has shown steady improvements and the areas warranting greater attention are continually highlighted to the School Administration.

7. Six additional class rooms to cater to the needs of increase in student strength were completed. Since most of the construction work has been done through donations in cash and kind, the local community was also motivated to contribute towards this noble cause. The village elders agreed to provide some material support for the new project.

8. Children Play Area. A Children Play Area with Merry Go Round, Monkey Bar, See Saw and slides etc has been created for young children. Efforts are at hand to make the area more attractive and free of dust for the children.

 

CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP AT NALTAR

9. In continuation of its efforts to build capacity of teachers, a capacity building workshop for the faculty of the CSK Falcons High School, Naltar was planned. A team consisting of Miss Janita Khan and Miss Alishba Anum from “Elements Learning PVT Ltd,” NUST, Islamabad conducted workshop at Naltar between 14^th to 18^th April, 2025.

Infrastructural Development at Tesil Fateh Jang, Distt Attock

10. The Trust had provided some infrastructural facilities to five schools in Tehsil Jand, Distt Attock during 2018/19. A request was received from Deputy District Education Officer (Women) on May 4, 2025 for provision of some deficient infrastructure in some schools in Tehsil Fateh Jang, Distt attock. A team comprising the Chairman, ACM Tahir, Addl Secy(R) Amjad Ali Toor (Trustee) and Mr Shahid (a donor), visited the target area and met the relevant authorities and concerned staff of the schools on May 8, 2025 for Need Analysis.
11. After the onsite discussions and calculating the cost effects of construction on self-help basis, an expenditure of Rs 2.050 million was envisaged. The project was approved by the BoT in its meeting on 12 May 2025 at the estimated cost on self-help basis without involving contractors and builders. Mr Amjad Ali Toor who had already worked earlier in the same district, was appointed as the Project Manager. The estimated costs for the project with procurements by the School Management Committees(SMCs) and employing labour only were as follows:-

SCHOOL FACILITIES FUNDING

1 GGES(Fatehjang) - Rs: 800,000/-

• Construction of one Class Room with electrification and Fans and Lights.
• Leveling of the Play Ground

2 GGES(Mahoora) - Rs: 1,250,000

• Completion of two class rooms, already constructed with walls only.
• Construction of two new Class Rooms with Electrification, Fans, Lights.
• Rain Water Harvesting System.

 

 

ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT - 2026

FALCON REMOTE AREAS DEVELOPMENT TRUST

1. The Trust activities revolved around improving conditions at the location of its Flag ship project ie CSK Falcons High School, Naltar and providing some infrastructural facilities for a Girls School in Mahoora, Tehsil Fateh Jang, Distt Attock. The Trust endeavours to adopt a Girls Primary School in Distt Attock could not materialize. A total number of three meetings of the Board of Trustees (BoT), Falcon Remote Areas Development Trust, were held to discuss and accord approval for various initiatives during the year 2025-26.                       

Visits to CSK Falcons High School, Naltar

2. Chairman’s Visit. Chairman visited Naltar from 25 to 29 September 2025. During the visit he had detailed interactions with faculty, Falcons Student Council(FSC), Village ‘Panchayat’, and all students. He visited all the classes and evaluated their academic standards.  He also inspected all the internal and external works and gave necessary instructions. The school strength had crossed 450, that speaks volumes about the standing of the school amongst the local populace. A comprehensive Post Visit Report was raised for action by all concerned.

3. CEO’s Visits to Naltar. During the year Major Ovais, the CEO, made four visits on different times to the school to monitor the progress on construction projects as well as have detailed interactions with the new principal and some other freshly inducted teachers. A teacher cum coordinator, Mrs Sidra Ateeq, from Sargodha was inducted as a senior coordinator and later, after the resignation of Mrs Shahida Bano, she was appointed as the principal. Due to the prevailing escalation in cost of living, the staff were facing difficulties in making both ends meet. The BoT approved the raise of 10% to 15% in salaries of the staff.

Private Classes at CSK School for FA Students

4. School is established to impart education up to matriculation but on the request of parents and students alike, the teachers were allowed take intermediate classes after school timings for the students who had passed their matric exams. The students are, however, paying fees to the teachers who are involved in teaching them. All students appeared as private students and passed their Ist year exams. Trust is considering initiation of Higher Secondary classes in due course to facilitate the local children.

CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP AT NALTAR

5. Since CSK Falcons High School is located at a very remote area, the teachers need to be provided continual capacity building so that that they are up to speed on instructional techniques. In that regard two sessions were conducted during year 2026.

6. Workshop by Director Academic. Mrs Ghazala Tahir, Director Academics visited CSK Falcons High school between 27 October to 02 November 2025 and conducted an essentially required capacity building workshop, especially for the newly inducted teachers. She also conducted various sessions with the other staff that were mostly held after the school timings. She covered following areas in different sittings:         

• Instructional Techniques for different levels(old & new teachers)
• Setting of Exam Papers, marks distribution and paper checking
• Admission criteria for Play Group. 

7. Workshop by Fazaia Teachers’ Training Institute(FTTI). Another Training Workshop was arranged at Naltar through good offices of Deputy Chief of Air Staff(Trg), AHQ’s, PAF. A team consisting of Grp Capt Zulfiqar and two female members from Fazaia Teachers’ Training Institute(FTTI), Islamabad conducted the same between 26^th to 30^th April, 2026. Teachers gained good knowledge about teaching the elementary classes. Additionally, some of the new faculty members gained immensely from this workshop.

Development Works

8. Works in Tehsil Fateh Jang. Mr Amjad supervised construction of the planned infrastructure at two sites in Tehsil Fateh Jang. The work at two schools as explained below started in June 2025 and was completed with some cost over runs in August 2025. While the ceiling fans were provided by AVM Ijaz Malik(former Trustee), an amount of Rs 145,111/ was approved in addition to the already allocated sum of Rs 2.050 million. A function was arranged by the school and new building was taken over by Directorate of Schools in September 25.

 

SCHOOL FACILITIES ADDITIONAL FUNDING

1 GGES(Fatehjang) - Rs: 800,000/- & Rs: 145,111/-

• Construction of one Class Room with electrification and Fans and Lights.
• Leveling of the Play Ground

2 GGES(Mahoora) - Rs: 1,250,000

• Completion of two class rooms, already constructed with walls only.
• Construction of two new Class Rooms with Electrification, Fans, Lights.
• Rain Water Harvesting System.

Addition of Infrastructure at CSK Falcons School, Naltar Bala, Gilgit

9. Third Phase at Naltar Bala(School Auditorium). A decision was taken to add an auditorium on top of the single storied building and convert the class rooms at ground floor to residential quarters. It was also decided to add three additional class rooms in the Hall area of the old Academic Block to take the total to seven, and also add two small size class rooms on one side of the under-construction auditorium. The planned development would make a total number of 26 class rooms, one library and one Laboratory available, that would suffice the future needs of CSK School.

10. The third phase was launched after the necessary architectural work by ‘Tijaarat Developers’. Some materials were again provided by the donors and works started in August 2025 to get completed by most likely middle of 2026. At Naltar, the construction works tend to drag as the masonry works have to be halted by November due to drop in temperatures and are restarted some times in April. However, during the process of construction of auditorium, quite a few delays were encountered due to weather and non-availability of skilled labour. Additionally, since the auditorium was to be situated on top an already constructed building, it needed to be done very carefully and articulately.

11. Additional Class Rooms in the Hall. Four make-shift class rooms and a Library were functioning in the Hall Area. The teachers and students had been complaining about the noise disturbance from the adjacent classes. A decision was taken to address that complaint by converting the already existing structures to proper class rooms and take their total tally to seven class rooms and a Library. However, due to the inordinate delays, the work spilled over to later part of 2026. The final completion could take place in 2027 session.

Female Representation in the BoT

12. PCP during their certification process had raised an observation pointing out the absence of female representation in the Board. Later, the FBR has also pointed out the same and also instructed the Trust to increase the female representation in the Board as recommended by the PCP ie 33% of the Board strength (Which is 7).

13. The BoT concluded that since the number of Trustees as given in the Trust Deed could not be altered, the changes had to be made within the existing parameters. Consequently, three Board members, i.e. AVM Ijaz Malik (Retd), Air Cdre Aftab Iqbal(Retd) and Major Ovais Shahid(Retd) volunteered to tender their resignations from the BoT to create space for the female members while staying within the parameters set by the Trust Deed. All three gentlemen emphasized that they would continue to work to realize the objectives of the Trust. Chairman requested Air Cdre Aftab to keep performing his duties as Secretary of the Trust and Major Ovais Shahid(Retd) to continue managing his areas of responsibilities ie as CEO. He also requested AVM Ijaz to continue his drive in the realm of publicity and marketing to bring in more donors on board.

14. PCP had also raised an observation about the absence of a properly selected CEO who should also not be a voting member of the Board. Since the Board had seen and evaluated the functioning of Major Ovais Shahid (Retd) in administrative and operational domains, therefore, he was nominated as CEO of the Trust. Chairman also asked the secretary to include the three honourable members in the General Body. All three gentlemen graciously accepted the request and membership of the General body.

15. A meeting of the General Body was called on September 20, 2025 to conduct elections as given in Para 14 of the Trust Deed. Only three proposals, duly seconded by worthy members had been received against three vacant seats. In view of no other contestants, the three nominated female members got elected unopposed and after following laid out procedure, their names were forwarded to Dir I&L, Registration Office for inclusion as Trustees.

(a)  Mrs Shazia Ijaz                        

(b)  Dr Mrs Hina Aftab        

(c)  Mrs Shaheen Tariq      

 

Tax Exempt Status By FBR 

16        Consequent to the certification by PCP on 30 June 2025, the Trust had applied for Tax Exemption to the FBR. The FBR accorded the Tax-exempt status to the Trust from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Asad Ijaz & Co, Chartered Accountants had compiled the procedural requirements that for which they were paid a sum of Rs 100,000 to cover their expenses as well as appreciation of their meticulous and meaningful work.

Investment in Mutual Funds

18. In view of the bank accounts of the Trust being Current Accounts, the surplus funds ie Rs.10 million in Meezan Bank were converted into TDRs for three months. However, in order to have better returns, the same amount was invested in ABL Mutual Funds.