House of Habib

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ہاوس آف حبیب

    

The House of Habib is a prominent  The Habib group's most famous and successful subsidiary is its Banking and Finance division.

 

 History   تاریخ

The history of the House of Habib goes back to middle of the previous-to-last century when Esmail Ali of Jamnagar, India, set up a small utensil factory in Bombay.
His sonحبیب اسماعیل Habib Esmail, born in 1878, founded the House of Habib. Habib was very young when his father died, forcing him to join the business of his uncle Cassum Mohammad. Cassum Mohammad was the owner of Khoja Mithabai Nathoo, a merchant, and a manufacturer of copper and brass utensils. It was because of his association with MithabaiReverse of Habib Bank 10 Gram Gold Bar Nathoo that Habib Ismaeel came to be known as Seth Habib Mitha.
The House of Habib holds many distinctions in Pakistan's history.  حبیب بنکHabib Bank was shifted to Pakistan  پاکستانon the personal bidding of Quaid-e-Azamمحمد علی جناح  Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He came to the aid of the nascent state "even before the Govt of Pakistan was ready to issue appropriate government paper" with a Rs 80 million loan when the Reserve Bank of India failed to deliver Pakistan share of Rs 750 million held by it. It is said that Mohammad Ali Habib gave a blank cheque on Lloyd Bank to the Quaid-e
-Azam who wrote Rs 80 million in it.
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The Habib family set up offices in  وی آناVienna and  جنیواGeneva as early as 1912 and incorporated Habib and Sons in 1921, which dealt in brass, metal scraps and gold with "Lion of Ali" & Zulfiqar embossed on it. The Habib Bank still uses this as its insignia

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