Iqra National University (INU) is a newly chartered university having its campus at Hayatabad Phase II Peshawar. Although it is newly chartered but the name “Iqra” is not new for the students, business circles and job market since the management, the faculty and the infrastructure is serving the nation at Peshawar for the last one decade, when it emerged as a campus of Iqra University Karachi chartered by the Government of Sind in year 2000 at University Town in a rented premises.
 
During this period of time the performance of the campus was continuously being monitored by different regulatory authorities like HEC, HERA and PEC and the efforts of the management of the campus was always recognized and highly appreciated by the high-level inspecting teams. Resultantly Higher Education Commission awarded the management of the Iqra University Karachi Peshawar Campus “No Objection Certificate” authorizing Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP) to elevate the legal status of the campus to a full-fledge university in the name and style of “Iqra National University”.

The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa very kindly recommended the draft proposal to the Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for consideration and necessary action. The Honorable Governor very kindly promulgated the “Iqra National University Ordinance 2010” vide “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ordinance No. VII of 2010” on November 25, 2010. The ordinance was presented in the provincial Assembly in form of a bill that was unanimously approved by the parliamentarians on April 12, 2011.
 
It was forwarded to the Governor, who very kindly assented it on April 19, 2011 and is published in the Government Gazette on Saturday April 23, 2011 as an “Act of the Provincial Legislature of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”.