Pakistan Society Award given to Major Geoffrey Langlands - Who is Principal of the Langlands School and College in Chitral

LONDON, May 27 (APP): The Pakistan Society Award for 2010 has gone to former British Army officer Geoffrey Langlands in recognition of his outstanding services to education.A citation read by Lt.General (retd) Anthony Palmer, President, Pakistan Society, at the 57th annual dinner of the Society at the grandeur great hall of Lincoln’s Inn on Wednesday evening, said Langlands arrived in the Indian subcontinent seventy years ago ready for adventure. He never left.

Major Langlands was present at the birth of Pakistan in 1947 and has spent more than half a century teaching there. He taught mathematics at Lahore’s Aitcheson College.

At 92 years old the former commando works full-time as Principal of the Langlands School and College in Chitral near the upper reaches of the Hindu Kush Mountains.He is responsible for 900 pupils between the ages of 4 to 18.

Major Langlands has survived being a teacher, a commander in the last war and being kidnapped at the age of 70. He is very respected by many distinguished people in Pakistan and the UK.

The award was presented by Pakistan High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan and was received on behalf of Major Langlands by noted author and journalist Victoria Schofield who will make arrangement to deliver the award to the doughty teacher.