Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf)

Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan, is a private non-profit research laboratory famous for its Unani and ayurvedic medicine. Hamdard Dawakhana originated in undivided India in 1906. After the independence in 1947, a branch was established in Karachi, Pakistan by Hakim Mohammed Saeed, named Hamdard Laboratories.

In 1953, Hamdard Laboratories was converted into a Waqf (Islamic irrevocable trust) and renamed Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan. Profits of Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Pakistan were made over to the trust, for use in the development of health, education and other nation-building and philanthropic activities. Hamdard Foundation Pakistan was created to manage these funds.

Hakim Abdul Majeed Nadeem Minnie Habedashery (1883–1922) founded an organisation called Hamdard Dawakhana in Delhi in 1906. At that time, it was a small clinic and herbal medicine shop. Abdul Majeed had come from a family that included many herbal doctors, and he joined the herbal pharmacy of the renowned Unani physician Hakim Ajmal Khan. As he developed his knowledge of medicine, he became a Hakim and decided to establish his own pharmacy and clinic, which he called Hamdard Dawakhana.

As a result of Hamdard's success, it moved to a larger building in 1922. Unfortunately, Abdul suffered a serious illness and died that year. Mrs. Rabia, his widow, took responsibility until son Hakeem Abdul Hameed assumed leadership.

In 1940, Abdul's youngest son Hakim Mohammed Saeed joined Hamdard Dawakhana. By 1947, Hamdard became a prominent manufacturer of herbal products and medicines in the Indian subcontinent.

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Saeed, at the age of 29, migrated to Pakistan. The following year, he established Hamdard Laboratories Pakistan in Karachi on a modest scale.

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