History
The Vision of Jahandad Khan

As a teenager, Jahandad Khan ran away from his village to become a cabin boy. The boy from Lilla, a small village in the heart of British India, returned home more than 25 years later, a prosperous plantation owner in East Africa.

Though he never received a formal education, Jahandad returned to Lilla, in the Potohar region, with a vastly broadened worldview and a passion for education. He realized that education is the key to success for every man and woman.

Back in Lilla, he put his philosophy into action. Each child, even his daughters, was encouraged to study: something virtually unheard of in that remote village in the 1930s. One daughter had an aptitude for mathematics and entered a scholarship competition, and he took her 22 miles every day by bus for lessons from a Hindu tutor. She won the competition, and later became a well-known teacher herself. Other children and grandchildren became successful government servants, doctors and pilots.