Fauji Foundation

Pakistani charitable trust and industrial group based in Rawalpindi, established in 1954 under the Charitable Endowments Act for the welfare of former members of the armed forces and their families, and one of the country's largest conglomerates. Its welfare arm runs a health care system of about eleven hospitals and sixty three clinics with more than nineteen hundred beds treating some five million patients a year, including the tertiary Fauji Foundation Hospital at Rawalpindi, together with schools, colleges and vocational training, funded from its holdings in fertiliser, cement, energy, food and other industries.