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usiness and industry and the top military man from Chiniot was one Brigadier<br />

Mehboob.<br />

" Chiniotis are born businessmen, born to serve the nation by setting up<br />

industaries. They seldom invest in cinema, hotels and activities like gambling<br />

prohibited by the religion. They are never suspected of shifting their capital<br />

abroad. It is the Chinioti Crescent group which is known as the exemplary tax<br />

payer", Habib Ullah pointed out.<br />

Mian Habib Ullah himself is a living exemple of the business acumen of his<br />

fraternity. His grandfather Nazar Mohammad had started export of hides and<br />

skins from Southern India and set up several industrial units including Zeenat<br />

Textile Mills with 25,000 spindles and 500 looms in 1952. It was after his father's<br />

death in 1981 that Mian Habib Ullah launched his own independent business, by<br />

buying off shares of his uncles in the family enterprise D M Textile Mills. He now<br />

heads a small group comprising D M Textile, Omer Textile, Bilal Fibre and<br />

Shalimar Textile.<br />

Mian Shaukat Masud is another budding Chinioti businessman from the twin<br />

cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and is member of a fairly large but unknown<br />

Fazal group Industries, with headquarters in Multan. The group has 24 units in its<br />

fold including Fazal Cloth, Reliance Weaving, Fatima enterprise, Sh Fazalur-<br />

Rehman and Sons and Mubarik Textile listed on KSE. Some unlisted units are<br />

Ahmad Fine Spinning Mills, Hussain Mills, Fatima Fazal Soap and Fatima Sugar.<br />

The entire production of four textile mills is exclusively devoted to export, mainly<br />

to Japan while some members of the family have set up independent units,<br />

Shaukat said.<br />

One of the Shaukat's cousins who married an American girl has set up Carolina<br />

Textile Mills at Jabal-e-Ali in Middle East.<br />

" Fazal group of Industries or Fatima group was founded by Shaukat's<br />

grandfather Mian Fazal-ur-Rehman who was working as a helper on a grocery<br />

shop in pre-independence <strong>Pakistan</strong>. He had to quit his job at the grocery shop<br />

when he lost his eyesight and was dropping a lot of bottles incurring loss to shop<br />

owner", Shaukat recalled.<br />

The loss of job forced Fazalur-Rehman to go back to family's kitty and pool the<br />

resources of family and friends to set up Fazal Edible Oil factory at Multan. The<br />

business was expanding when it was hit by nationalization of Edible oil and rice<br />

husking units.<br />

Shaukat said he would never forgive <strong>Pakistan</strong>'s Peoples Party for causing the<br />

death of his father, Mian Masud who took it upon himself to lead one man<br />

crusade against nationalization.<br />

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