After the emergence of Islam in the subcontinent in 712 A.D, when Muhammad Bin
Qasim(an Arab General) made an entry to this strategically important region of South Asia, the
Muslims ruled India for almost one thousand years. The decline of Mughal Empire, however,
created a vacuum, which was immediately exploited by the British East India Company resulting in
British rule of the subcontinent for nearly one hundred years. During their colonial rule, the
British raised sixteen ordnance factories prior to Second World War to thwart strategic threats
posed to their occupation. At the time of creation of Pakistan in 1947, all those sixteen
factories fell to Indian share since no one of them were located in Muslim majority areas. Newly
created Pakistan with fragile state apparatus and fragmented Armed Forces, had absolutely no
arms & ammunition manufacturing facility to meet the security challenges to its sovereignty.