[1] Abdul Rehman Quraishi was the founder of seventeen schools and colleges which were operational under his own personal administration.

The college has faced many disputes and media attention for political riots and killings.

Many students of the Islami Jamiat Talba group have been indulged in fights with PSF and APMSO groups, during the 1970s the college was a centre of gun firing, public shootouts and political nuisances which gave the college a bad reputation.

A female journalist was injured and six students were arrested in the incident, Taha Riaz, IJT head of Islamia College, Nauman Hameed, Makhdoom Hussain, Abdul Wahab, Niaz Ahmed, and Sonu Khan under sections 147 and 148.

When they were asked to clear the way for traffic, especially for ambulances and fire brigades, they instead started pelting stones.