In 1939, in the bustling city of Lahore, Pakistan, a dream was born.
Mian Muhammad Sharif laid the first stone of a journey that would span generations.
What began with a few tools and endless determination evolved, through grit and relentless hard work, into Ittefaq Foundries Ltd — By 1971, Ittefaq Foundries had grown into Pakistan’s largest steel and heavy engineering enterprise — the crown jewel of the Ittefaq Group and a symbol of national industrial pride.
December 1971 brought the fall of Dhaka, severing their operations in East Pakistan.
Two weeks later, in Lahore, Ittefaq Foundries was nationalized without compensation — years of blood, sweat, and ambition wiped away overnight.
Yet even stripped of their assets, the spirit of resilience, deeply embedded by Mian Muhammad Sharif, could not be broken.