Quaid-i-Azam University Quaid-i-Azam University Quaid-i-Azam University (; commonly referred to as QAU) is a public research university in Islamabad, Pakistan. Founded as the University of Islamabad in 1967, it was initially dedicated to the study of postgraduate education but expanded through the 1980s to an interdisciplinary university offering undergraduate and postgraduate education. The university has, as of 2015, grown into the largest varsity in Islamabad with a total enrollment exceeding 13,000 students. The university is on a 1700 acres (or 6.9 km²) campus on the foothills of the Margalla. Divided into four faculties and nine affiliated research institutes, QAU is among Pakistan's
Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park The major controversy broke in December, 2017, when a company named Jahangir Siddiqui & Co Ltd (JSCL),owned by Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, the business partner and close friend of Sharif family, was pre-qualified to attain 100% equity stake in Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power (Private) Limited. It was also feared that entire tax exception awarded to privatization of the project is done to facilitate Ali Jehangir Siddiqui. Despite, criticism on awarding business partners for ownership of the project, Jahangir Siddiqui & Co. was invited in March, 2018 , to submit bid along with other eight companies. Although the bidding process was due to