ABBOTTABAD, Oct 25: The corps commander of Rawalpindi, Lt-Gen Syed  Arif Hasan, has said the public schools are national assets and they must  be patronised.

Speaking as chief guest at the 26th annual prize distribution and parents’ day of the Army Burn Hall College on Wednesday, he asked the students to keep their targets and ideals as high as they could, and to follow the motto, “to what height I cannot rise.”

Arif Hassan, who is also the chairman of the board of governors of the Army Burn Hall institutions, said Rs32 million had been approved for  the construction of the auditorium, academic block, administration block and labs, and the work would start soon.