The school is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 as a non-profit institution.
[2] From the start, Langlands was a staunch advocate of education for girls in Chitral, insisting on teaching them up to the age of eighteen.
He encountered stiff opposition to this, but eventually convinced local leaders that society needed educated women.
[2] After suffering a stroke in 2008, the then 91-year-old Langlands started to contemplate retirement,[1] and in September 2012, leadership of the school was transferred from the 94-year-old founder to 58-year-old British woman Carey Schofield,[5] a foreign correspondent for London based newspapers for several decades and author of several books on military matters, among them Inside the Pakistan Army (2011).
He went to the Minister of Interior without the knowledge of the Trustees or Governors and persuaded Mr. Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan (his old Aitchison pupil) to block her visa.