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Government Jinnah Islamia College Sialkot originally named as Jinnah Islamia College is located in Sialkot in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

History:

Government Jinnah Islamia College was founded in 1951 by Anjamin Himayat-i-Islam as a College for liberal arts studies offering diplomas in Secondary Education and B.A. The College building was a minimally refurbished Orphanage maintained by the same Anjamin.

Yusuf Hashmi, a graduate from Ali Gagh University, was the First Principal of the College. As compared with its sister college for men in the same town, the Murray College, enrollment in Jinnah Islamia College was very low. There were about twenty students enrolled in its inaugural year seven of whom were in the undergraduate class. The writer of this article was one of them.