Army Burn Hall College (Urdu: آرمی برن ہال کالج; Pashto: د ارمي برن هال کالج; commonly referred to as Burn Hall and abbreviated as ABHC) is a highly selective, Pakistan Army-administered day and boarding school and college in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

[2][3] It has since expanded to multiple single-sex campuses for boys and girls in the city offering education up to master's level.

[2] In 1879, Cardinal Herbert Vaughan sent Mill Hill Missionaries to the north of British India to serve as army chaplains during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

[12] After the end of that conflict, they were entrusted with the pastoral care of Catholic troops in the Punjab and North West Frontier regions, and with the evangelisation of Kashmir and Kafiristan.

[11][13][14][15] At the time of partition of India, the Mill Hill mission was thrown into disarray by the Kashmir conflict and the school was closed.

The Fathers promoted sports and extracurricular activities such as art, debates, dramatics and music as a means of character building.

So, the Mill Hillers who had spent almost the whole of their lives in British India remained in Abbottabad to provide further service to the school.

[2] On 28 October 1993, Pakistan Post issued 1 million commemorative postage stamps to celebrate 50 years of Burn Hall Institutions.

Gohar Ayub Khan, being an old Hallian, announced the launch of the book History of Burn Hall on behalf of the college.

appeared on the coat of arms of Nicolas Fouquet, the last Superintendent of Finances of France, as a symbol of his rapid ascension.

His family also traditionally bore the motto and it can be found in many rooms and decorations at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.

It is Burn Hall's most notable building and is featured on both the commemorative postage stamps issued on its 50 and 75 year anniversaries.

It was inaugurated by an old Hallian, the then Chairman Board of Governors Army Burn Hall Institutions and the then Commander X Corps, Lt Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan HI(M), Sitara-e-Esar on 25 November 2011.

At any time there are dozens of such associations in existence, catering for a wide range of interests and largely run by boys.

Many of these have been in existence for decades while others tend to come and go:[28][29] Many of these put exhibitions on display, particularly for the annual prize distribution ceremony, whose guest of honour is a personality, like a general of the armed forces or the president of Pakistan.