From 1972 to 1982 Sister Mary Emily FC of the Daughters of the Cross

Daughters of the Cross

Daughters of the Cross is a religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded in Liège in 1833. The foundress, Mère Marie Therese , sent her Sisters over to England in 1863. Its formal title is The Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross of Liège.Daughters of the Cross is constituted as a...

 religious order, was the Principal of the St. Joseph's College (Karachi), Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. St. Joseph's is one of the leading Colleges in the country. In 2007, 1,548 students were studying in the college with a total of 78 teachers.

The Daughters of the Cross were founded in Belgium

Belgium

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 175 years ago and arrived in Pakistan in 1862. The Sisters have been involved with various activities over the years: the founding of schools; work in hospitals, clinics, and social centers for assisting the poor and sick; offering humanitarian assistance, both material and spiritual, to prisoners and those living in refugee camps; family counseling; service to the orphans and children living on the street, through a house that takes care of over 120 children. Today, the congregation has 112 houses all over the world and 850 Sisters carrying out its mission.

In 2005, when St. Joseph's College was returned to the Catholic Board of Education

Catholic Board of Education

The Catholic Board of Education is the arm of the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan responsible for education. Each diocese has its own board. Collectively the Catholic Church runs 534 schools, 8 colleges, and 7 technical institutes in its 2 archdioceses, 4 dioceses, and one Apostolic...

, Sr Emily was again appointed the principal.

On the 23 March 2009 the Government of Pakistan

Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan is a federal parliamentary system, with an indirectly-elected President as the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Pakistani Armed Forces, and an indirectly-elected Prime Minister as the Head of Government. The President’s appointment and term are...

 awarded Sr. Emily the Sitara-e-Imtiaz which she received from the Governor of Sindh

Governor of Sindh

The Governor of Sindh is the appointed Head of State of the provincial government in Sindh, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the Prime Minister and is normally regarded a ceremonial post...

. This was in recognition of her services to education.