The Pakistani community in Dubai numbers over 400,000,[3] forming around 13% of the local population and constituting the third largest ethnicity in the city.

These include general community welfare services, facilitating remittances, dispatching bodies of deceased persons, and settlement of issues relating to the Pakistani labour workforce working in Dubai and the northern Emirates.

There are currently 12 Pakistani international schools throughout Dubai and its adjacent emirates, four of which were established by the consulate-general and the remainder eight privately.

The schools predominately provide education to the children of Pakistani expatriates, teaching from junior grades up to the higher secondary level.

The curriculum is affiliated with the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) and the syllabus is English-medium.