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Mian Mohammad Ismaeel Sheikh was a business magnate who headed the<br />

biggest industrial and commercial concerns owned by Muslims in the present-day<br />

<strong>Pakistan</strong>, and in pre-partition India. The group set up its first factory in 1898, first<br />

flour mill in 1908 and at the time of partition comprised 14 ginning factories and 4<br />

flour mills. A Crescent and Star was the insignia of the group.<br />

The group lost heavily to Bhutto's nationalization and it was left only with a few<br />

textile mills, flour mills and ginning factories.<br />

The fate of the parent company Sheikh Mohammad Ismaeel and Company and<br />

Messes Sheikhco Co Ltd are not known.<br />

S No Name<br />

Assets Turnover<br />

1 Suhail Jute 193 118<br />

2 Colony Sarhad 422 217<br />

3 Colony Woolen 7 -<br />

4 Colony Textile 196 291<br />

5 Nafees Cotton 683 544<br />

6 Colony Thal Textile - -<br />

7 Salman Noman 119 196<br />

TOTAL 1,620 1,366<br />

Financial Companies<br />

8 National Security Insurance 94<br />

Premier<br />

This group has developed around one of the oldest sugar mills in <strong>Pakistan</strong><br />

namely Premier Sugar Mills belonging to a Hindu family which changed hands at<br />

the time of partition and was bought over by Sarfraz Khan, father of late Mir<br />

Mohammad Afzal Khan, a minister in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's cabinet.<br />

The current chairman of the group, Abbas Sarfraz is among the few who have<br />

declared their assets to worth over 1 million dollars.<br />

S No Name<br />

Assets Turnover<br />

1 Premier Sugar 655 302<br />

179

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