OUR HISTORY

In the early fifties, Mir Imam Bakhsh Zehri discovered Onyx in the desert of Chagai district in Balochistan, which is the biggest province in Pakistan.

Onyx in Pakistan is only in this area. In the early fifties, the village people used to bring different precious stones to those people who could afford to buy them. Once they got a sample of Onyx, Mir Imam Bakhsh Zehri got interested in this beautifull stone and went to this location to discover its origin. There he saw few deposits, so he took some for sampling. He had made his own cutter machine at home, and he has seen different colors running through it. Straight away he discussed the matter with his elder brother Mir Qadir Bakhsh Zehri and his younger brother Mir Nabi Bakhsh Zehri.Because his two brothers were these days involved in politics and he was taking care of the family business (as they had coal mines running), they had the capital to work on their new discovery, so the work of mining was taken care of Mir Imam Bakhsh. He did the first export as a sample to Italy, and the second export to unseat that time the stock was not more than 25 tons. His younger brother went to Italy to take care of the export, and so from Italy our family got the name "Kings of Onyx". Later on, they imported machinery for the factory from Italy, and had a huge yard with millions of tons of onyx as stock in Italy. Today, Onyx is being taken care by the new generations. Mir Mehmood Zehri is the second generation. He took business to a high level with all the high tech machinery and mining. Today he is professional in recognizing the grade "A" quality blocks. Machinery that he is using today was also imported from Italy so that the level of Onyx exploration and production is still very high. Now, Zehri family is the only Onyx mine owners in Pakistan.
Mr. Mukarram Zehri is the third generation of this family; they worked hard to be the primary exporters of the Zehri group in different finished onyx like tiles, slabs, mosaics, cut to size, and different handicrafts.