Quaid-e-Azam tourist lodge, Barsala serves as the entry point to Azad Kashmir. The lodge was first built during the Dogra rule by the Hindu Dogra dynasty. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and his sister Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah, stayed here on 25 July 1944 when they were returning from Srinagar on their way to Rawalpindi. A wall plaque was unveiled by the then Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan on 14 August 2001, commemorating the visit of Jinnah. The chair used by Jinnah has been preserved and can be seen in the lodge. Barsala was captured by the Pakistan Army
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