In February 1948 a trading company was formed to deal Coal, Charcoal and HardCoke business gradually the company diversified and expanded its business in different fields.Paper Wax Match was introduced in 1970 as the first local investment Match factory in Pakistan. The company introduced safety wooden matches in 1978, which was a complete success.

Later in 1984 (Late) Kh. Aftab Ahmed laid foundation of M/S Fazal Sons Match Industries (Pvt) Ltd. in Lahore, Pakistan as his family owned company.The setup was established with little on-hand resources. " " ... In 2002, after several years of experience in the manufacturing and knowledge of strategic marketing network for safety wooden matches, our Group decided to set up a company to produce and market Ball Point Pen.

Aftab Sons Writing Instruments Industries established in 2002, is located in City Of Gardens LAHORE. Marketing, writing instruments under Trade Mark “SIGNATURE” Aftab’s Group have well experienced team of marketing persons, our marketing network is linked with a distribution channel of almost 350 distributors all over the country. Our goal is to achieve customer satisfaction through excellence in product designing, writing quality & supply chain management.